The Dream [electronic resource]
Iain Crichton Smith2015
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In the grey streets of Glasgow, Martin is dreaming of the mist-shrouded islands
of his youth. Behind her desk in the travel agency his wife Jean dreams of
faraway places in the sun that beckon from the brochures. Their marriage frays
in the silence as Martin clings to the Gaelic he teaches at the university, the
dwindling bedrock of the culture of the isles, while Jean refuses to speak a
language that brings back memories of the bitter years of her childhood. While
Jean chatters with her friends of relationships and resentments, Martin turns to
Gloria who seems to share his dream of the islands of the Gael... Iain Crichton
Smith's The Dream explores the precarious survival of a modern marriage with a
poet's lean, evocative precision and all the spellbinding authority of a master
storyteller in the time-honoured Celtic tradition.
Main title:
The Dream [electronic resource] / Iain Crichton Smith
Author:
Iain Crichton Smith, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Polygon, 2015
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (pages, 172, Bytes, 488481.0)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780857907271
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
534379
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