Electric Brae: A Modern Romance - Softcover

Greig, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0862417406 ISBN 13: 9780862417406

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

At the center of this brilliant novel is the crumbling relationship between a young artist, Kim -- coldly passionate, talented, secretive -- and Jimmy, a North Sea roughneck, engineer and climber.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Although it gets off to a slow start, Scottish poet Greig's first novel will strike a chord with baby-boomers as it explores tangled, often tortured relationships against the backdrop of the death of idealism in the 1980s. Narrator Jimmy Renilson, a 30ish engineer who works on an offshore oil platform in the North Sea, has two passions: mountain climbing and tempestuous artist Kim Russell. With Jimmy's pal Graeme, also a climber, and Graeme's bisexual girlfriend Lesley, they form a quartet that tests the boundaries of love and friendship. Greig relates their personal and political struggles through a series of flashbacks, creating a bittersweet mood and leavening the symbol-laden text with irony. His characterizations are honest and complex; the dialogue comes alive through his sparing, pungent use of Scots dialect. Already acclaimed for two nonfiction works about Himalayan expeditions, Greig ( Summit Fever ) will win new admirers with this probing tale of contemporary Scotland, into which he has woven the age-old themes of love, death and madness.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0862417406
• ISBN 13: 9780862417406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312