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Stone Voices

The Search For Scotland

«Highly personal and unusual assessment of Scotland now, weaving in his own political odyssey with a deep historical knowledge.We don't have intellectuals in this country any more except Neal and a couple of his mates, and the richness of texture in Stone Voices shows us what we are missing»

Andrew Marr

Neal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books on Poland and his collected essays on the strange Britain to which he returned from Europe in the mid-1980s were deeply influential. Les mer

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Neal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books on Poland and his collected essays on the strange Britain to which he returned from Europe in the mid-1980s were deeply influential. In 1995, Black Sea won critical praise in many languages and several literary prizes. Stone Voices is Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity, but this is no journalistic rumination on the future of that small nation. Ascherson instead weaves together a story of the deep past - the time of geology and archaeology, of myth and legend - with the story of modern Scotland and its rebirth. Few writers in these islands have his ability to write so well about the natural context of history.

Detaljer

Forlag
Granta Books
Innbinding
Paperback
Språk
Engelsk
Sider
224
ISBN
9781862075832
Utgivelsesår
2003
Format
20 x 13 cm
Priser
Short-listed for Orwell Prize 2003.

Om forfatteren

Neal Ascherson was born in Edinburgh in 1932. Sustaining a long career in journalism, he has written for The Observer (1960-1990) and the Independent on Sunday (1990-1998). He contributed scripts for the 1974 documentary series World at War and the 1998 series The Cold War. More recently, he has been a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. His own books include The Polish August (1981), Black Sea (1995) and Stone Voices (2002).

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«Highly personal and unusual assessment of Scotland now, weaving in his own political odyssey with a deep historical knowledge.We don't have intellectuals in this country any more except Neal and a couple of his mates, and the richness of texture in Stone Voices shows us what we are missing»

Andrew Marr

«A richly textured and most unusual meditation on Scotland...his ability to leapfrom archaeology to the politics of the labour party, and then back via a little linguistics to recalling a pub conversation is both disconcerting and inspiring»

Observer

«Provides a scholarly and poetic explanation of the emotional roots of Scottish nationalism, invaluable for any Englishman who is baffled by its anger and contradictions»

New Statesman

«Ascherson is one of the most stylish and erudite journalists around... Stone Voices is a lucky bag of a book, into which Ascherson has stuffed everything he knows about Scotland.The luckiest part is that he knows a great deal»

Sunday Telegraph

«Erudite and thorough»

Lesley McDowell, Sunday Herald

«Absorbing and beautifully written... full of surprising revelations (it has by far the best account of the Picts I have ever read) and with a range of reference which is breathtaking in its scope. Throughout it all, Ascherson's devotion to Scotland and its people, for all their faults, shines through»

Spectator

«Ascherson is both a brilliant writer and brings a searching intelligence to his subject (his analysis cannot easily be dismissed)»

Scotland on Sunday

«Ascherson's book is like a beautifully written embrace: an arm round the shoulder in an Argyll pub, (yet) with a journalistic persistence and fluency»

Independent

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