The Serpent
Neil Gunn author Alan Taylor editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:NORTH HOUSE PRESS
Publishing:21st May '26
£15.00
This title is due to be published on 21st May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
An old man living at the height of his powers of recall and memory tells the story of his life on the day of his death from the vantage point on a hill above the village where he was born.
Quietly narrated and yet raging with will and the passion of youth, this is a novel about fathers and sons, hope and hope’s death, and how we might live in the world before leaving it. In the company of such masterpieces as Seethaler’s A Whole Life and Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
A wildly immersive story, The Serpent will grip the reader from the outset and is a provocative and an-putdownable study of what it is to be human.
'One of the most important Scottish writers of the twentieth century'
-- TLS'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'Neil Gunn has given us a wonderful body of work...the greatest achievement of its kind in modern Scottish literature'
-- Hugh MacDiarmid'A brilliant novelist'
-- Lewis Grassic GiISBN: 9781918204025
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
304 pages