After the Dance - Selected Stories of Iain Crichton Smith Crichton-Smith IainPaperback
After the Dance - Selected Stories of Iain Crichton Smith Crichton-Smith IainPaperback As a child Iain Crichton Smith was raised speaking Gaelic on the island of Lewis. Like many islanders before and…
Specifikacia After the Dance - Selected Stories of Iain Crichton Smith Crichton-Smith IainPaperback
After the Dance - Selected Stories of Iain Crichton Smith Crichton-Smith IainPaperback
As a child Iain Crichton Smith was raised speaking Gaelic on the island of Lewis. Like many islanders before and since, his culture was divided: two languages and two histories entailing exile. At school in Stornoway he spoke English.
After the Dance proves that big themes - love, history, power, submission, death - can be addressed without the foil of irony and acquire resonance when given a local habitation and a voice that risks pure, humane, impassioned speech.This updated edition includes the story His divided perspective delineated the tyranny of history and religion, of the cramped life of small communities, and gave him a compassionate eye for the struggle of women and men in a world defined by denials.