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Blood Hunt
Neil M. Gunn
出版
Polygon
, 2007
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Classics
ISBN
1846970245
9781846970245
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=n2zFAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
After a lifetime at sea, old Sandy returns to the land of his fathers to live out his remaining years in the peaceful isolation of a Highland croft. His companions are his dog Queenie, a temperamental cow Nancy, a few hens and his precious books. He befriends the local village boys who come to trust him. When one of these boys, Allan, seeks his helps after killing the man who has seduced his girlfriend, Sandy takes his side, warding off suspicious enquiries from the village policeman, the dead man's brother. Allan's girlfriend also comes to seek refuge with Sandy and eventually gives birth to her baby there. A moving and satisfying blend of tragedy and comedy,
Blood Hunt
has a powerful message - the triumph of love over anger and of the unending renewal of nature. It is a masterly novel by a writer in full maturity. It was Gunn's second last novel and one of his most masterly.