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Essays and Journalism 2 Carradale: The Naomi Mitchison Library, cartea 1

Autor Naomi Mitchison Editat de Moira Burgess
en Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2009
The writing career of Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) stretched over some seventy years, encompassing at least seventy works of fiction as well as non-fiction, poetry and plays. Almost unknown, however, is the mass of shorter prose pieces - journalism, essays, polemics, reminiscences - which Mitchison produced during her long career. There are many hundreds of these pieces, covering a tremendously wide range of topics, an untapped resource both in Mitchison biography and in the wider field of social history. Volume 2 in the seven-volume edition of Naomi Mitchison's Essays and Journalism is devoted to her writing about the West Highland village of Carradale, to which she moved in the late 1930s and where she lived for over sixty years. She writes about many aspects of Carradale: her farm, the local fishing industry, the big garden which was particularly dear to her heart, and 'the village and the Big House'. A long essay, 'Rural Reconstruction', never reprinted before, is a snapshot of Carradale in the 1940s and a spirited presentation of Mitchison's dreams for its future. These digressive, charming, combative pieces show both the practical and the thoughtful sides of her writing, often to touching effect: she cared deeply for Carradale and its people, and the book is a wonderful introduction to a beautiful part of Scotland and a major writer.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781849210119
ISBN-10: 184921011X
Pagini: 434
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Kennedy & Boyd
Seriile The Naomi Mitchison Library, Naomi Mitchison Library


Recenzii

'It has been a pleasure to read this collection, not least because Mitchison brings to her observations a rare duality of vision: the outsider's detachment and the insider's engagement. She took in everything, and no detail was spared, however irrelevant to her intended readership, which certainly wasn't local.' We see the community at work and at play ... an illuminating set of little pictures of life in a West Highland community before its old - and comfortably narrow - values were engulfed.' Angus Martin, The Kintyre Magazine, Number 67, Spring 2010

Notă biografică

Naomi Mitchison [1897-1999] was a literary phenomenon. Tireless in her writing, unafraid and often highly unconventional in her opinions, she left an extraordinary legacy. Her novels for adults and children stressed at different times her deep interest in Scottish and African societies, as well her concerns for the future. She also travelled widely, wrote poetry and plays, memoirs, a war diary, book reviews, political articles, and many letters.