The Great Edge
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Grace Note Publications
Published:31st Oct '17
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
THE GREAT EDGE brings together lives - ancient and modern - on the northern plateau where Scotland stops and starts, where history and myth fuel everyday reality, and where nothing is as it seems. When an archaeologist comes to Caithness to research an early Christian chapel, she must reckon with a crisis that is global and contemporary as well as local and ancient. Adopted by Fracher, a retired roughneck and local fisherman, Mags is spun into a galaxy of characters and events that force her to a profound understanding of the relationship between Past, Present and Future. Meanwhile, in 21st-century Atomic City, the decommissioning of a national nuclear icon brings several dreams to an end. THE GREAT EDGE is a story of science, engineering and geology; of Picts and Irish monks, Norse mythology, and Celtic civilisation. Through the eyes of a Norse skald, we begin to see there is little in the 21st century that hasn't been experienced before. As we witness global warming and Arctic ice-melt, are we all waiting for the wave? In THE GREAT EDGE the wave duly arrives.
`Gunn does what every fine writer must do: he reminds us we are a part of this frail, cold, vicious, beautiful world.' By John Glenday, Northwords Now; 'George Gunn has never shied away from risk. His way with words lives somewhere between Dylan Thomas and the Viking Sagas... rooted in his own native Caithness background, but sails out into many landfalls, some real, others mythic, always sustaining a radical questioning outlook ... traversing history, current international conflicts and the state of Scotland.' By Aonghas Macneacail, The Herald; `Spare, lean language honed on brittle, sometimes brutal, stalks of feeling... There is a salty, windswept goodness at this collections "conflicting heart". George Gunn is a poet of energy and lyricism. Fearless.' By Anne Macleod, Scotland On Sunday; `The Province of the Cat' has a richly interwoven texture that illuminates in its parts and in the whole. Gunn has produced an outstanding work which no-one who wants to understand Caithness, or Scotland, should ignore. By Donald Smith, The Journal of Scottish Affairs.
- Short-listed for Dundee International Book Prize 2016
ISBN: 9781907676949
Dimensions: 215mm x 139mm x 20mm
Weight: unknown
362 pages