The sunset song book7/1/2023 Life was hard for her – a cruel, incestuous father and a community that was often unforgiving in its iron-clad morality. Chris loses her men, she has to cope with rumours of cowardice and desertion, and she sees the territory around her transformed. Yet it’s also stamped with a nostalgia he can never quite cast off.Ībove all, he portrays the cataclysmic impact of the war on a generation and their expectations. The story he weaves round the passionate character of Chris Guthrie, a woman who endures terrible suffering as well as fulfilling love, is rough and unforgiving in its picture of 20th-century feudalism before the first world war. He wrote it in Welwyn Garden City, of all places, in the first years of the 1930s, and looked back to the countryside he knew as a boy – the rich farmland of the Mearns, just south of Aberdeen, which stretches from the mountains to the sea. It’s a book that takes you into a different world. Sunset Song can take it, and if Davies’s treatment introduces another generation to Grassic Gibbon, all will be well. No doubt the film will meddle with the language for the sake of comprehension. Sunset Song: watch the exclusive trailer for the first world war tragedy starring Agyness Deyn – video Guardian
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