The Key of the Chest (Canongate Classics)
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Author(s)Neil M. Gunn
PublisherBirlinn Ltd
ISBN / ASIN0862417708
ISBN-139780862417703
Sales Rank6,725,952
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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When a storm in wrecked on a rocky Highland coast in a wild night, Charlie MacIan drags a drowning seaman out of the pounding waves. The seaman is clinging to a wooden chest. Brought into shelter, he is found to be dead—but was his death accidental? And did the chest once contain money? These questions hang like a threat over the various members of a small community struggling to keep life going on a hard, relentless coast. It is a mystery in which Neil Gunn displays his skills as a writer of depth and subtlety and we emerge from the tale asking questions about the nature and meaning of community itself, and how it can survive in a bewildering and violent modernity.