Good grief, this was bleak and boring. Sure it ends on a hopeful note, but I am just so done with this book. Previous updates: Reading progress update: I've read 291 out of 585 pages. Reading progress update: I've read 206 out of 585 pages. Reading progress update: I've read 18 out of 585 pages.
From an essay on this book in The Fabulous Matter of Fact: The Poetics of Neil M. Gunn:In Highland River Gunn's interest is remembrance, in the relation of single events to much wider issues, and in the expression of philosophical ideas through the medium of constructed memory . . . Despite its seem...