Serpent
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Author_Neil Gunn
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Fiction
forthcoming
literary fiction
Scotland
Product details
- ISBN 9781918204025
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2026
- Publisher: NORTH HOUSE PRESS
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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An old man living at the height of his powers of recall and memory tells the story of his life on the day of his death from the vantage point on a hill above the village where he was born.
Quietly narrated and yet raging with will and the passion of youth, this is a novel about fathers and sons, hope and hope’s death, and how we might live in the world before leaving it. In the company of such masterpieces as Seethaler’s A Whole Life and Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
A wildly immersive story, The Serpent will grip the reader from the outset and is a provocative and an-putdownable study of what it is to be human.
Neil Gunn is the author of more than 20 works of fiction and memoir. He was born in Dunbeath, Caithness and lived, worked, and wrote about life in the Highlands.
Alan Taylor is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and editor whose books include The Assassin’s Cloak, an anthology of the world’s greatest diarists, Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark, and the ‘autobiographies’ of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
