A Time to Keep and Other Stories by George Mackay Brown
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A Time to Keep and Other Stories
Summary
The second collection of stories published by George Mackay Brown, this volume includes 12 stories arising from both ancient and modern life on the island of Orkney.
A Time to Keep and Other Stories Summary
A Time to Keep and Other Stories Reviews
[He] finds more diversity of subject and mood in these islands than most writers would see in a city street ... He is a precise, poetic and dazzling writer. - GuardianA brilliant writer ... he combines great imagination, ... with a firm rooting in reality and a deep understanding of humanity. Kate Grimond. - Spectator
About George Mackay Brown
George MacKay Brown was born in Orkney in 1921 and died there in 1996. His The Golden Bird was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize in 1988, and in 1994 Beside the Ocean of Time was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and judged Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society.
Table of Contents
Celia; a time to keep; a treading of grapes; Icarus; the story teller; the wireless set; the five of spades; the whaler's return; the bright spade; tartan; a carrier of stones; the eye of the hurricane.
Additional information
GOR003604527
9780719560224
0719560225
A Time to Keep and Other Stories by George Mackay Brown
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Murray Press
20000928
181
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