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The Weatherhouse (Canons)
Nan Shepherd
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Description for The Weatherhouse (Canons)
Paperback. Nan Shepherd's greatest novel; a masterpiece of Scottish modernism. 'A blazingly brilliant writer' - Robert Macfarlane Series: Canons. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 48. Weight in Grams: 170.
The women of the tiny town of Fetter-Rothnie have grown used to a life without men, and none more so than the tangle of mothers and daughters, spinsters and widows living at the Weatherhouse. Returned from war with shellshock, Garry Forbes is drawn into their circle as he struggles to build a new understanding of the world from the ruins of his grief. In The Weatherhouse Nan Shepherd paints an exquisite portrait of a community coming to terms with the brutal losses of war, and the small tragedies, yearnings and delusions that make up a life.
The women of the tiny town of Fetter-Rothnie have grown used to a life without men, and none more so than the tangle of mothers and daughters, spinsters and widows living at the Weatherhouse. Returned from war with shellshock, Garry Forbes is drawn into their circle as he struggles to build a new understanding of the world from the ruins of his grief. In The Weatherhouse Nan Shepherd paints an exquisite portrait of a community coming to terms with the brutal losses of war, and the small tragedies, yearnings and delusions that make up a life.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Condition
New
Series
Canons
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782118862
SKU
9781782118862
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Nan Shepherd
Anna (Nan) Shepherd was born in 1893 and died in 1981. Closely attached to Aberdeen and her native Deeside, she graduated from her home university in 1915 and for the next forty-one years worked as a lecturer in English. An enthusiastic gardener and hill-walker, she made many visits to the Cairngorms with students and friends. She also travelled further afield ... Read more
Reviews for The Weatherhouse (Canons)
Spellbinding
ALI SMITH A blazingly brilliant writer . . . She's so far ahead of us - we're always only starting to catch Nan up. Philosophically and stylistically, she was extraordinary
ROBERT MACFARLANE Pressingly modern . . . Pinpoints timeless philosophical debates about the naming of things and our relationship to the environment
AMY LIPTROT Shepherd is ... Read more
ALI SMITH A blazingly brilliant writer . . . She's so far ahead of us - we're always only starting to catch Nan up. Philosophically and stylistically, she was extraordinary
ROBERT MACFARLANE Pressingly modern . . . Pinpoints timeless philosophical debates about the naming of things and our relationship to the environment
AMY LIPTROT Shepherd is ... Read more