Beside the Ocean of Time
George Mackay Brown
ISBN 10: 1904598293 ISBN 13: 9781904598299
Verlag: Birlinn, 2017
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The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR001703000
Inhaltsangabe:
Thorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer who avoids both work and school despite the best efforts of family, friends and neighbours. Instead, the boy dreams up elaborate historical fantasies of himself as a Viking traveller, a freedom-fighter for Bonnie Prince Charlie and the colleague of a Falstaffian knight who participates in the Battle of Bannockburn. He is then hurled into the future as Thor, who returns to Orkney as an adult and recalls his internment in a German POW camp, where he discovered his writing skills.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:
George Mackay Brown (1921–96) was one of the twentieth century’s most distinguished and original writers. His lifelong inspiration and birthplace, Stromness in Orkney, moulded his view of the world, though he studied in Edinburgh and later at Newbattle Abbey College. In 1941 he was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis and lived an increasingly reclusive life in Stromness, but he produced a regular stream of publications from 1954 onwards. These included A Calendar of Love (1967), A Time to Keep (1969), Greenvoe (1972), Hawkfall (1974), and, notably, the novel Beside the Ocean of Time (1994), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Book of the Year.
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Bibliografische Details
Titel: Beside the Ocean of Time
Verlag: Birlinn
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good