![]() Yet the First World War and the economic and social changes that follow make her a widow and mock the efforts of her youth. The novel celebrates a notion through a religion its farm folk are of the Mearns, but they are also typical Scots: their words are felt as Scots words, not those of a regional dialect.ĭivided by her love of the land and the brutal harshness of farming life, Chris chooses to live in the rural community of her childhood. Sunset Song is the most celebrated book of Gibbons trilogy. Lewis Grassic Gibbon created one of the most convincing female characters of Scottish fiction and so sympathetically, so inawardingly that normal readers thought that he might be the non-de-plume of a woman author. Large themes are tackled in the novel through the story of Chris growing up in the first world war. Throughout the novel it provides a description of life in the first two decades of the century by the evocation of change and the intensity of its prose. ![]() ![]() "Sunset Song" was written by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'(1901-35) who was born and brought up in the area of Arbuthnolt where his father rented a croft(Bloomfield). ![]()
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