Neil Miller Gunn, Author Walker & Company $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1310-0
Limned in a gnarly, homespun Scots dialect, Gunn's earnest parable again features the two eponymous characters of Young Art and Old Hector, whose companionship illustrates the best aspects of youth and age. During WWII, eight-year-old Art and his...
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Neil Miller Gunn, Author Walker & Company $17.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1052-9
Set in a remote Scottish fishing village at the turn of the century, this richly textured novel quickly involves the reader in a baffling mystery. Dougald MacIan informs the local authorities that his brother Charlie tried in vain to rescue a...
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Neil Miller Gunn, Author Walker & Company $22.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1089-5
Well known in his native Scotland, Gunn's imaginative works are beginning to appear in the U.S. This novel, written in 1948, is the third issued by Walker, following Blood Hunt and Key of the Chest . The complex plot fuses Gunn's fascination with...
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Neil Miller Gunn, Author Walker & Company $21.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1177-9
Gunn, the late, prolific Scottish author ( Blood Hunt ), here recounts the entertaining tale of a cross-generational friendship. Eight-year-old Art is the youngest of six children in a turn-of-the-century Scottish family, and Old Hector, near 80, is
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Neil Miller Gunn, Author Walker & Company $19.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1228-8
Widely praised in his native Scotland, Gunn (1891-1973) has been overlooked in the canon of world literature, an injustice that may be redressed by his American publisher's commendable program of U.S. reprints. His sixth novel to be released in the...
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Neil Miller Gunn, Author Walker & Company $25.95 (429p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1291-2
Originally published in Scotland in 1934, this tale by the author of the well-received books Morning Tide , chronicles the demise of Scotland's highland culture. A marvel of rich language and mythic storytelling, the book is set in the early 19th...
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