Sunset Song (Penguin Classics)
by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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Author: Lewis Grassic GibbonEditor: William Malcolm
Introduction: Ali Smith
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-12-18
ISBN: 0141188405
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: Language as music
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't even know where to start on this one.
Look, if you've got a tin ear, short attention span, are raised on video games, and don't want challenges to your own experience, curl up to a Stephen King and a Bud on the vinyl lounge chair on the patio and be happy. But for heaven's sake don't crack these pages. You'll just suck air into the R-complex, and you'll have to purge it.
On the other hand, if you want to do the rad in lingo, strap yourself into another more advanced mind, Mr. Gibbon's for instance, and struggle up through the depths where most of us crab around sideways mouthing syllables, and claw your way up into the sublime.
To the place where language and music merge with life. The place of tragedy and joy. To the world not your own. The evocation of a lost time and place and culture. A lost quality of light. Savagery. Humility. Humor. Perseverance. The coming of age of a young woman. Danger. This. This work of high art. The gift of another.
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