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The Island of the Women
George Mackay Brown
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Description for The Island of the Women
Paperback. A collection of short stories, exploring the author's concerns with history, spirituality, legend and storytelling. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 294.
The Island of the Women is George Mackay Brown's posthumously published collection of short stories, released in 1998, two years after the author's death. Like his previous collections, A Time to Keep and A Calendar of Love , this volume explores Brown's concerns with history, spirituality, legend and storytelling. In the title story, Brown uses the famous Orcadian myth of the selkie, the seal-man. The story Poet and Prince: A Fable , explores the role of the writer in society, a tale which begins in an unknown European state and concludes on Brown's beloved island. ... Read more
The Island of the Women is George Mackay Brown's posthumously published collection of short stories, released in 1998, two years after the author's death. Like his previous collections, A Time to Keep and A Calendar of Love , this volume explores Brown's concerns with history, spirituality, legend and storytelling. In the title story, Brown uses the famous Orcadian myth of the selkie, the seal-man. The story Poet and Prince: A Fable , explores the role of the writer in society, a tale which begins in an unknown European state and concludes on Brown's beloved island. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Birlinn General United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
293g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904598909
SKU
V9781904598909
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About George Mackay Brown
George Mackay Brown is one of the major Scottish literary figures of the twentieth century. A prolific poet and novelist, he took much of his inspiration from the myths and landscape of Orkney, and also from his deep Catholic faith. His collection of short stories A Time to Keep (1971) won the Katherine Mansfield Mentor short story prize and his ... Read more
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'George Mackay Brown is one of the masters of the short story form'
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