The Cone Gatherers (Longman Literature)
by:
Robin Jenkins (author)
ISBN:
9780582060173 (0582060176)
Publisher: Longman Schools Division (a Pearson Education
Edition language: English
The cone-gatherers of the title are two labourers on a Scottish estate during the Second World War, who spend their days gathering pine-cones from the treetops so that the forest can be replanted after being cut down for lumber to help the war effort. A job so unexpected and remote from modern-day l...
I had to read this for school when I was a lad. I didn't much enjoy the experience. Even at that age, despite having never read it, the book struck me as a poor man's Of Mice and Men.
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