George Mackay Brown
The Life
$29.39
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
10 May 2007
Summary
George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland’s greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Charles Causley, and hailed by the composer Peter Maxwell Davies as ‘the most positive and benign influence ever on my own efforts at creation’, he was also an accomplished novelist (shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize for Bes…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719566059 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719566053 |
| Author: | Maggie Fergusson |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2007 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 133mm x 25mm |
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Other biographies to relish include Maggie Fergusson’s life of the poet George Mackay Brown… - Boyd Tonkin, Independent
In Maggie Fergusson, Mackay Brown has had the good fortune to find the kind of biographer with whom every writer should be blessed. She writes lucidly, with restraint and without sentimentality. Her affection and sympathy for her subject shine through but she never shirks from showing his darker side. He was a deeply troubled man cursed with melancholia whose legacy was prose and poetry of luminous virtuosity. If there is a better biography of a 20th century Scottish writer I look forward to reading it - Sunday HeraldOutstanding… This is an extraordinarily good book; it is sensitive, witty and has an excellent sense of the vitality of the apparently unimportant details that make up lives and characters. - Lucy Lethbridge, New StatesmanAn affectionate but clear-sighted biography. Read it alongside his Collected Poems and step into the ‘small green world’ of [the Orkneys] - The TimesUnmissable - Glasgow Herald[Fergusson’s] biography is infused with love and understanding of the man and his work… she writes with a delicate precision - Sunday Times, Jeremy LewisThrough his letter and conversations with many friends, Maggie Ferguson discovers that George’s life was vivid, courageous and surprising - Scottish FieldHe deserves a good biography but has got a magnificent one; sympathetic, affectionate, but not glossing over his weaknesses - Allan Massie, Daily TelegraphAbout The Author
Maggie Fergusson
Maggie Fergusson has written for newspapers and magazines including The Times, the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, Harpers & Queen and the Independent magazine, and is Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature. She is married with two daughters and lives in London. This is her first book.
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