Beside the Ocean of Time
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Publishing Details
Beside the Ocean of Time
By (Author) George Mackay Brown
HarperCollins Publishers
Flamingo
1st November 1995
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1994
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 15mm
160g
Description
Set in the Orkneys on the fictitious island of Norday, a young poet daydreams the history of the island and its people. He travels back in time to Viking adventures at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion.
Author Bio
George MacKay Brown was born in Stromness in the Orkney Islands in 1921. He studied at Newbattle Abbey under Edwin Muir and read English at Edinburgh University. He has published many books including plays, poems, novels and collections of short stories. Edwin Muir described his work as possessing a strangeness and magic rare anywhere in literature today. George Mackay Brown has seldom left Orkney since he completed his academic studies, and the imagery and history of the islands has been the inspiration for all his work. His novel Beside the Ocean of Time was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize.
