Lorn Macintyre

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The Summer Stance (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

With a sensitivity that contrasts with the brutal realities of life, renowned writer and journalist, Lorn Macintyre, intimately portrays the antagonism and hostility aimed at Scottish Travellers as they strive to maintain their dying traditions. The Summer Stance embeds the reader in a way of life few experience and even fewer understand, and one that is fading from the Scottish consciousness. In a remarkable novel Lorn Macintyre binds the reader to characters who alternately draw empathy, horror and bewilderment, whilst powerfully conveying a sense of loss for a misconstrued and disappearing aspect of Scottish culture. The Summer Stance is more than a story of one man clinging to his traditions, it is a eulogy to centuries of cultural history in danger of being forgotten. About The Summer Stance: Abhainn na Croise, the river of the cross, where the otters swim and the Scottish Travellers camped for generations, working on the land, repairing whatever was broken, and welcomed back each year by the area's settled residents. Those days are long gone, but Dòmhnall Macdonald, raised in a Glasgow tower block, yearns for the old ways and the freedom they represent. When his grandmother falls ill, Dòmhnall determines to take her back to the Abhainn na Croise one last time - but times have changed too much. Instead of the welcome of old, the returning Travellers are met with suspicion, hostility and violence - and Dòmhnall becomes a hunted man. Set in the timeless Scottish landscape, Lorn Macintyre's latest novel is an intimate portrait of a misunderstood way of life and a fast disappearing part of Scottish culture.

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Autor

Lorn Macintyre was born in Taynuilt, Argyll, in 1942, and lived in Connel at The Square, Dunstaffnage House until the family moved to Tobermory, Mull, when he was a teenager. He studied at Stirling University and did a doctorate on Sir Walter Scott at Glasgow University. Having worked as a freelance writer and journalist, he spent years as a senior researcher and scriptwriter in BBC Gaelic and English television.
Lorn has drawn extensively on his Highland background in his writings. His Dunstaffnage House years formed the inspiration for a series of novels, Chronicles of Invernevis, about the fortunes of a landed family throughout the 20th century. He has published two collections of short stories, Tobermory Days and Tobermory Tales, about his formative years on Mull, where his father Angus, a poet and raconteur, was the charismatic Gaelic speaking bank manager. His 2012 collection of short stories, Miss Esther Scott's Fancy, celebrates his love, with his wife Mary, of dancing. His novel, The Leaper, published in 2017, is about a Gaelic speaking fisherman who is an outsider in an island community which has lost, or abandoned, its native language.
His poetry collection, A Snowball in Summer, celebrates his Highland ancestry, with a long poem recalling his mother's suffering from Dementia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: thunderpoint
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910946602
• Artikelnr.: 72344452