The golden bird : two Orkney stories
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-19961987
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These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown's work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be threatened.The Golden Bird tells the story of the slow decline of an island community: a scattered village dependant on the sea for its livelihood and at risk from it, a place subject to the peculiar tensions of isolation and the unsettling influence of new values.The Life and Death of John Voe looks at the life of a typical young Orkney man: after whaling and sailing and gold-mining he comes home to devote the rest of his days to a beautiful country girl.These stories are the creation of a very rich imagination, of a practised and skillful writer, but they also have the power and simplicity of the traditional ballad
Main title:
The golden bird : two Orkney stories / George Mackay Brown.
Author:
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996, author
Imprint:
London : Murray, 1987.
Collation:
(256) pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Orkney Library copy with barcode 2141250 is part of the Ian MacInnes Collection, and is signed by George Mackay Brown. StKrOLA
Contents:
Contents: The golden bird - The life and death of John Voe.
ISBN:
07195438519780719543852
Language:
English
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Short stories in English1945-Texts
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