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23%OFFAndrew O'hagan - A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems - 9781786891617 - 9781786891617
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A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems

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Description for A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems Paperback.
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron saint of the heartsore and the hungover. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns Nights and patriotic yawps, there is the work itself, among the purest and most truthful created in any age. This is a Burns collection like no other, introduced, arranged and contextualised by the award-winning novelist and essayist Andrew O'Hagan. Above all, it is an accessible ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786891617
SKU
9781786891617
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Andrew O'hagan
Andrew O'Hagan was born in Scotland in 1968. He is author of The Missing and Our Fathers which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Holtby Prize for Fiction. With his second novel, Personality, he won the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named one of Granta's Best of Young British ... Read more

Reviews for A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems
There is probably no better modern introduction to Burns' work . . . A triumph

Herald

Presents Burns as a poet infinitely worth reading

Daily Telegraph

People who find it hard to get into Burns have the answer to their prayers in this book . . . presented ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems


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