John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier

by Andrew Lownie

Overview

The major biography of one of Scotland's most enigmatic and underrated writers, father of the modern spy thriller.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567922363
Publisher:	David R. Godine, Publisher
Publication date:	06/30/2003
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.97(d)

About the Author

ANDREW LOWNIE was educated at Fettes, Westminster, Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was Dunster History Prizeman and President of the Union, and at Edinburgh University. He has been a journalist contributing to The Times and The Spectator and has worked in publishing. A past Council Member of the Buchan Society, he has written introductions to several Buchan novels and has edited a collection of Buchan's poetry.

Editorial Reviews

In his thorough and lucid biography, Andrew Lownie, a Scottish journalist and editor of several collections of Buchan's stories and poetry, sympathetically evokes this ''highly complex and private man who may not always himself have understood his own motivations and abilities.'' Buchan's heroes, men of ratiocination and action, reason and romance, duty and adventure, Lownie maintains, best reveal and imaginatively reconcile the contradictions that both impelled and thwarted Buchan during his lifetime. — Sherie Posesorski

THe New York Times

Trumpets should now sound for Buchan; and I will sound one of my own for Andrew Lownie, who has brought this most extraordinary man to life in a way no previous writer has.

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