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The golden bird : two Orkney stories by Brown, George Mackay; Brown, George Mackay. Life and death of John Voe is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The golden bird : two Orkney stories about?

These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown's work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be threatened. "The Golden Bird" tells the story of the slow decline of an island community: a scattered village dependant on the sea for its livelihood and at risk from it, a place subject to the peculiar tensions of isolation and the unsettling influence of new values. "The Life and Death of John Voe" looks at the life of a typical young Orkney man: after whaling and sailing and gold-mining he comes home to devote the rest of his days to a beautiful country girl. These stories are the creation of a very rich imagination, of a practised and skilful writer, but they also have the power and simplicity of the traditional ballad. They will delight Mackay Brown's fans.

Author

Brown, George Mackay; Brown, George Mackay. Life and death of John Voe

Publisher

Polygon: An imprint of Birlinn Limited

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846970856

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.58 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13