Publication

2011 - Birlinn, Edinburgh, Scotland

Language

English

Word Count

44,250 words, Guess

Page Count

177 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781841589718
  • Open LibraryOL25196694M

Classifications

  • DDC746.41092
  • LCCNK8898.M33 H88 2011
  • LCCNK8898.M33 H88 2011
and 1 more
  • LCCGN432

Description

"In September 1939, a group of horsemen in battledress cantered down a broad, grassy plain on South Uist. The young men of the Western Isles were going to war again. Among their number was a tall, shy 24-year-old called Angus MacPhee. Before the fighting was done Angus returned. War had broken him, and he retreated into a silent, private world, impenetrable to those around him. During the following fifty years at Craig Dunain Hospital in Inverness, 'the quiet big man' spent his time creating a huge number of objects - including clothes, footwaer, horses' bridles, caps and hats - out of woven grass, sheep's wool, meadow flowers and beech leaves. He then burned them or let thyem decay. Only when an art therapist discovered Angus MacPhee's ... creations were some of them preserved for posterity. ..."--Back cover.

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