The Drinking Well
The Drinking Well
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Zusammenfassung
Iain Cattanach loves to wander the hills tending his father's sheep. However, his mother has other plans for him. A position in an Edinburgh legal firm is secured for Iain and he is forced to leave the countryside he loves. The city is alluring but events force him to return to Torglas and to face up to his family and companion, Mary Cameron.
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The Drinking Well by Neil Gunn
Iain Cattanach loves to play the fiddle and wander the hills tending his father's sheep. However, his self-sacrificing mother has other plans for him. A position in an Edinburgh legal firm is secured for Iain and he is forced to leave the countryside he loves. The city is alluring and sophisticated but, ultimately, events force him to return to Torglas and to face up to his family and long-time companion, Mary Cameron. This work contains beautiful characterisation and evocative description of early 20th-century Edinburgh.
Neil M. Gunn was born in Dunbeath, Caithness in 1891, the seventh of nine children. His father James was a fisherman, and his mother Isabella was a domestic servant. Gunn left the Highlands to live with his sister and her family, and was educated privately, passing his Civil Service exams in 1907. He published short stories throughout the 1920's and his first novel The Grey Coast in 1926. He wrote several other novels, including The Green Isle of the Deep (1944), The Silver Darlings (1941) and his autobiography, The Atom of Delight, in 1956. He died in 1973.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781904598893 |
| ISBN 10 | 1904598897 |
| Titel | The Drinking Well |
| Autor | Neil Gunn |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Birlinn General |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2006-10-18 |
| Seitenanzahl | 526 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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