'A jam-packed, dizzying piece of fiction' Scotland on Sunday 'Toweringly ambitious, virtually flawlessly realized, a masterpiece and, without a doubt, my book of the year' Daily Mail The winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2010, And the Land Lay Still is a masterful insight into Scotland's history in the twentieth century and a moving, beautifully written novel of intertwined stories. It is a moving, sweeping story of family, friendship, struggle and hope - epic in every sense. James Robertson's breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern Scotland as seen through the eyes of natives and immigrants, journalists and politicians, drop-outs and spooks, all trying to make their way through a country in the throes of great and rapid change. And the Land Lay Still is the sweeping Scottish epic by James RobertsonĪnd the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story of a nation.
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He began writing as a form of stress release, from being home bound and not being able to work, and found he liked writing erotica. Upon returning to the United States, he had difficulty maintaining employment because of the chronic illness. A month after beginning the new job, he was laid off due to budget over-runs on the project he was hired for. Shortly after getting out of the military, and after getting a new job with an over-seas company, he was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. Before getting out of the military, he decided to go to school for computer electronics. Upon reaching adulthood, he joined the United States Army as a communications technician. Ben Winston (1965 - ?) was born in Iowa and grew up in Minnesota on the family dairy farm. In 1977 she won the prestigious Xavier Villaurrutia Award. Her first collection, Tiempo destrozado, was published by El Fondo de Cultura Económica in 1959. Their dramatic solution to the problem is typical of the author’s narrative style.ĭávila began as a poet, but it is her stories that gained her fame. The man stalks and terrifies the wife, her children, even her maid. In “The Houseguest,” the story that lends its title to this collection, a woman’s cruelly controlling husband brings a stranger home to live with them. Many of Dávila’s stories have female protagonists who are driven to insanity by their inability to escape oppressive social situations. In the 1950s and ’60s, few Mexican women were acknowledged as literary talents: Rosario Castellanos and Elena Garro were the exceptions. Born in Zacatecas in 1928, she went to the nation’s capital in 1966, where she worked for a time as secretary to Alfonso Reyes, who encouraged her to publish. 122 pages.Īt ninety-one, revered Mexican writer Amparo Dávila has had a long and illustrious life in letters. In Dead Wake, Erik Larson ’78JRN seeks to detail the last crossing of the Lusitania and “the myriad forces, large and achingly small, that converged one lovely day in May 1915 to produce a tragedy of monumental scale.” Using the testimony and diaries of survivors, along with telegrams, letters, and secret intelligence ledgers, Larson constructs his compelling narrative with a painstaking - some might even say pathological - attention to historical accuracy. Of the 1,959 passengers and crew aboard, 764 survived. The Lusitania, once called by its owners “the safest boat on the sea,” sank in just eighteen minutes. Few are as familiar with the Lusitania, another ill-fated transatlantic cruiser, which left New York on May 1, 1915, with great pomp and celebration, only to be torpedoed by a German U-boat in hostile waters off the coast of Ireland. When it comes to epic disasters involving luxury liners, the Titanic and its iceberg loom large. The "RMS Lusitania," as depicted in a 1907 postcard. |