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Morning Tide

(Paperback, Main)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Morning Tide

Contributors:

By (Author) Neil M. Gunn

ISBN:

9780285622012

Publisher:

Profile Books Ltd

Imprint:

Souvenir Press Ltd

Publication Date:

22nd July 1993

Edition:

Main

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

823.912

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

256

Weight:

280g

Description

Twelve-year-old Hugh MacBeth lives in a small fishing village near Caithness at the end of the nineteenth century. He is becoming aware of his mother's worries that he and his brother will follow their father to sea, and is becoming to realise that the fishing industry is doomed to decline, a decline that will result in the death of his village.

A lyrical and poignant novel Morning Tide describes how a young boy learns to become a man. It is a poetic testimony to the intensity of feeling in physical experience, the touch of the earth and the coldness of the sea, and in the need to be free. Sensitivity and wildness are pitted against the restrictions of family and social life, and it is more than a complete picture of childhood; unfolding into a set of values that speaks powerfully to the present.

Reviews

A moving, human document, beautifully and poetically written and leaving the reader with a new understanding. -- Scottish Field * . *
Modern Scottish fiction reaches its highest peak in the novels of Neil M. Gunn... Like Hardy, and indeed Joyce... he transcends regionalism and acquires universality. -- The Scotsman * . *

Author Bio

Neil M. Gunn was born in 1891, the son of a fishing boat skipper. He worked in the Excise Service until 1937 before becoming a full-time writer. He was a founder member of the Scottish National Party and is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest writers of the twentieth century.

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