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Five Men and a Swan (Paperback)
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Five Men and a Swan (Paperback)
Series: The Naomi Mitchison Library, 35
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Loot Price R570
Discovery Miles 5 700
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This collection, which Naomi Mitchison published in 1957, is
recognisably a 'Carradale book', containing as it does vivid and
realistic stories and poems of the landscape and the people.
Mitchison had moved to the village in Kintyre, on the west coast of
Scotland, some twenty years before and was still much involved in
its affairs, supporting the fishing fleet and running her own small
farm. Yet, as Moira Burgess suggests in her Introduction to this
new edition, these thirteen stories and fourteen interspersed short
poems and songs do not make a straightforward, celebratory,
collection. The first five stories have historical settings in
Caithness and Orkney, with the rest set in the contemporary West
Highlands - some drawing on Highland myth and legend. And then, as
Burgess writes, 'tucked modestly and apparently at random' is 'Five
Men and a Swan' - 'a fine story, probably her best, a classic of
Scottish literature'. Mitchison's years of intense involvement with
the community were in fact drawing to an end. From the early 1960s
onwards, she applied her energy and enthusiasm to the cause of the
Bakgatla tribe in the newly independent country of Botswana. Her
writing would turn to African themes, and, in 'a marvellous late
flourish', to science fiction. Seen in this light, the book may be
not so much a celebration as a coda to Mitchison's Carradale years.
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