A review by paulsnelling
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

3.0

A Scottish classic. I’m not a great one for classics. This was certainly atmospheric and lyrical, and the paragraph-long-sentences aren’t easy to read. You can hear the narrator’s voice alright. But there was much skated over, and there’s not much light thrown on the central event at the end of the book – nor anything in what preceded it that might explain it. Well, a little, perhaps but not much. I can’t tell how the farmers in that part of Scotland behaved just after the turn of the 20th century, but there’s the famed taciturnity in spades. I’m glad I read it, but the pages didn’t turn easily.