Highland River

by Neil M. Gunn

ISBN: 9780862413583
Imprint: Canongate Classics
Publication Date: Sep 2002
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99
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Written in prose as cool and clear as the water it describes, Highland River is one of Neil Gunn's most lyrical and popular novels. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial prize when first published in 1937, it has over the years become established as one of the greatest pieces of twentieth century Scottish fiction.

The river of the title is the physical and spiritual focus of the novel and the source to which Kenn returns. Looking back over his life, the river becomes symbolic of both what has been lost and waht has endured. Its effect on him is profound and the culmination of this poetic masterpiece.

1891 - 1973. Neil Miller Gunn is recognised as one of the most important writers to emerge in twentieth-century British literature, and was a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. He held a lifelong commitment to the ideals of Scottish nationalism and socialism, and as a prolific critic, dramatist and author of over twenty novels he was arguably one the most influential Scottish writers of the early twentieth century.

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