Young Art, and Old Hector

By Neil M. Gunn

Book Overview

When the intensities of family life become too much for eight-year-old Art, he turns to Old Hector for comfort. Thwarted from fulfilling his burning desire to go to the River, he seeks out the old man... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0285622544
• ISBN13: 9780285622548
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Souvenir
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.7" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

The best introduction to Scottish Highland life ..

If anyone has never been to the Scottish Highland's and would like to read how it looks and canjure up the smell the sights & the lifestyle almost gone forever then read this..i've lived in the highlands and this is like taking a walk in the hills every time you pick it up, it's also a great study of an old and wise man passing on his way's to his younger admirer. Neil Gunn is the most ignored and virtually undiscovered Scottish version of John Steinbeck...Educate and enlighted yourself..or stay in the dark......