• See large image

  A Calendar of Love (Paperback) By (author) George Mackay Brown

  

  $12.07 - Save $0.63 (4%) - RRP $12.70 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
  all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours Add to basket | Add to wishlist |

  Short Description for A Calendar of LoveA collection of short stories, featuring several characters - the fishermen, the crofters, the farmers and the wild tinkers - all struggling to live their lives and find their identities in a harsh habitat and a cruel age.
  Full description

  • Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
  • Published: 14 May 2006
  • Format: Paperback 160 pages
  • See: Full bibliographic data
  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9781904598732 ISBN 10: 1904598730
  • Sales rank: 220,001

• The Island of the Women

  

  Add to basket $12.07 - Save $0.63 (4%) - RRP $12.70

• Beside the Ocean of Time

  

  Add to basket $12.07 - Save $0.63 (4%) - RRP $12.70

• Greenvoe

  

  Add to basket $10.56 - Save $0.55 (4%) - RRP $11.11

• Vinland

  

  Add to basket $12.07 - Save $0.63 (4%) - RRP $12.70

• Beside the Ocean of Time

  

  Add to basket $13.58 - Save $0.71 (4%) - RRP $14.29

Full description for A Calendar of Love

• In this, George Mackay Brown's first collection of short stories, the themes he would develop over his career are set out - an obsession with his home Orkney, its dark and violent Viking past, the cycle of the seasons, and the struggle of its inhabitants. The characters of these stories - the fishermen, the crofters, the farmers and the wild tinkers - are all struggling to live their lives and find their identities in a harsh habitat and a cruel age. The stories in this collection share the same melancholy tone and sense of the ceaseless renewal made possible by the natural cycle.