Lewis Grassic Gibbon was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and science fiction, and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. The Mearns trilogy, A Scots Quair, is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.
'Sunset Song is my favourite book of all time'
*Nicola Sturgeon MSP, First Minister of Scotland*
'One of the five best Scottish novels of all times'
*The Wall Street Journal*
'I've just re-read Sunset Song, and its great gripping hybrid
of melodrama and realism has left me scorched ... Grassic Gibbon's
language in the Quair freed me to think language could do anything
and everything, could be poetic and realist and dark and soaring
and local and strange all at once, with sentences longer than
breath; but still all about breathing, or how the heart works'
*Ali Smith*
'The book and their heroine deserve their place in history. There
is no better description of the way all these young men from small
villages went off to fight in a war, which most of them didn’t
understand, and from which so many never returned. That is one of
the reasons it carries so much resonance… he [Grassic Gibbon] was
responsible for creating a masterpiece which will live forever'
*Vivien Heilbron*
'Chris Guthrie is one of the great women of 20th century fiction
... he [Grassic Gibbon] portrays the cataclysmic impact of the war
on a generation and their expectations ... Sunset Song is a lament
– and a cry of anger, too'
*The Guardian*
'Sunset Song is regularly voted Scotland’s favourite book in public
polls, is acclaimed across the world, and remains the most
evocative work ever written about the Mearns'
*Press & Journal*
'That flinty Scottish wit – which I experienced first in the books
and later recognised when I studied there – flies off the pages in
dark sparks'
*Independent*
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