George Mackay Brown

The Island of the Women

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of short stories, exploring the author's concerns with history, spirituality, legend and storytelling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Birlinn General
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9781904598909
• ISBN-10: 1904598900
• Artikelnr.: 22224674

Autorenporträt

George Mackay Brown as born in Stromness, Orkney (the 'Hamnavoe' of his stories and poems), in 1921. He was at Newbattle Abbey College while Edwin Muir was Warden. He read English at Edinburgh University and afterwards did postgraduate work on Gerard Manley Hopkins. He became a Catholic in 1961. He died in Orkney in 1996.