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Greenvoe (Paperback)
$9.94 - Save $1.10 (9%) - RRP $11.04 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for GreenvoeGreenvoe, the community on the Orkney Island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations. George Mackay Brown has recreated a week in its life, mixing history with personality in a sparkling mixture of prose and poetry.
Full description- Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
- Published: 01 July 2004
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781904598176 ISBN 10: 190459817X
- Sales rank: 159,255
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Full description for Greenvoe
Greenvoe, the tight-knit community on the Orcadian island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations. However, a sinister military/industrial project, Operation Black Star, requires the island for unspecified purposes and threatens the islanders' way of life. In this, his first novel (1972), George MacKay Brown recreates a week in the life of the island community as they come to terms with the destructiveness of Operation Black Star. A whole host of characters - The Skarf, failed fishermen and Marxist historian; Ivan Westray, boatman and dallier; pious creeler Samuel Whaness; drunken fishermen Bert Kerston; earth-mother Alice Voar, and meths-drinker Timmy Folster - are vividly brought to life in this sparkling mixture of prose and poetry. In the end Operation Black Star fails, but not before it has ruined the island. But the book ends on a note of hope as the islanders return to celebrate the ritual rebirth of Hellya.
