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  Smeddum and Other Stories (Canongate Classic) (Paperback) By (author) Lewis Grassic Gibbon

  

  

  

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  Short Description for Smeddum and Other StoriesA collection of work from Grassic Gibbon, featuring stories and poems, essays and polemics, and book reviews and novel synopses. It juxtaposes the diverse range of Gibbon's literary personae and presents the author's multiple perspectives - of local, national and international significance.
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  • Publisher: Canongate Classics
  • Published: 01 June 2002
  • Format: Paperback 944 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays | Anthologies (non-poetry) | Contemporary Fiction | Political & Legal | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780862419653 ISBN 10: 0862419654
  • Sales rank: 1,170,728

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Full description for Smeddum and Other Stories

• Chris Guthrie and her son, Ewan, have come to the industrial town of Duncairn, where life is as hard as the granite of the buildings all around them. These are the Depression years of the 1930s, and Chris is far from the fields of her youth in Sunset Song. In a society of factory owners, shopkeepers, policemen, petty clerks, and industrial laborers, "Chris Caledonia" must make her living as best she can by working in Ma Cleghorn's boarding house. Ewan finds employment in a steel foundry and tries to lead a peaceful strike against the manufacture of armaments. In the face of violence and police brutality, his socialist idealism is forged into something harder and fiercer as he becomes a communist activist ready to sacrifice himself, his girlfriend, and even the truth itself, for the cause." Grey Granite" is the last and grimmest volume of the Scots Quair trilogy. Chris Guthrie is one of the great characters in Scottish literature and no reader of "Sunset Song" and "Cloud Howe" should miss this last rich chapter in her tale. Introduced by Tom Crawford.