Morning tide

Book

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Cohen Bray House

Name/Title

Morning tide

Entry/Object ID

2022.214.1

Description

Twelve-year-old Hugh MacBeth lives in a small fishing village near Caithness at the end of the nineteenth century. He is becoming aware of his mother's worries that he and his brother will follow their father to sea, and is becoming to realise that the fishing industry is doomed to decline, a decline that will result in the death of his village. A lyrical and poignant novel Morning Tide describes how a young boy learns to become a man. --Wordlcat

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Signature

Location

Front flyleaf

Transcription

Emelita

Language

English

Material/Technique

Handwritten

Type

Label

Location

Front flyleaf

Transcription

In this cross-section of a family's life, seen through the eyes of the youngest son, the author has captured the curious in tensity of adolescent perception. A kind of morning light shines upon the visible world of a Scotch fishing-village, height ening every detail. When the family sits down to tea each movement and remark is significant. When the boy joins his elder brother on a poaching expedition, joy and terror and adventure quiver in the mid night woods. Every incident of the boy's daily life strikes its exact note of importance. An hour in school, his brother's departure for Australia, his sister's love-making overseen, his mother's illness-all these experiences are told with the accents of truth, which may be in one moment barely audible and in the next overwhelming. With decorations by MAITLAND DE GOGORZA.

Language

English

Material/Technique

Label

Notes

Seems to be part of the original jacket, pasted onto the book.

Create Date

July 23, 2022