Sunset Song (Summarized Edition)

Sunset Song, the opening movement of the Scots Quair trilogy, follows Chris Guthrie in the Mearns of northeast Scotland from the last quiet years before 1914 through the dislocations of war and modernization. Gibbon fuses lyrical realism with modernist experimentation, braiding Doric Scots and supple English to create a voice at once intimate and communal. The novel's cadenced chapters register th...