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Kenneth Buthlay's edition of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is widely considered to be the best edition of all and provides extensive commentary and notes, taking the reader through MacDiarmid's complex and often opaque use of language. The drunk man lies on a moonlit hillside looking at a thistle, jaggy and beautiful, which epitomises Scotland's divided self. The man reflects on the fate of the nation, the human condition in general and his own personal fears.

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

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Kenneth Buthlay's edition of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is widely considered to be the best edition of... Read more

    Publisher: Birlinn General
    Publication Date: 22/05/2008
    ISBN13: 9781846970269, 978-1846970269
    ISBN10: 1846970261

    Number of Pages: 208

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    Kenneth Buthlay's edition of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is widely considered to be the best edition of all and provides extensive commentary and notes, taking the reader through MacDiarmid's complex and often opaque use of language. The drunk man lies on a moonlit hillside looking at a thistle, jaggy and beautiful, which epitomises Scotland's divided self. The man reflects on the fate of the nation, the human condition in general and his own personal fears.

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