A review by ipb1
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

4.0

Part bildungsroman, part poetically written elegy for a way of life in the process of being erased by modernity and war (probably more lament than elegy - it isn't exactly sorrowful for what is passing). It manages to combine lilting vernacular and rather dreamlike prose with an at times gritty and explicit portrait of womanhood (threatened incest, domestic violence, etc.). It also made me miss my life in Dumfries as a 'sassenach gobshite'.