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The Cone-gatherers - Robin Jenkins, Iain Crichton Smith
The Cone-gatherers
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780140062922 (0140062920)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics, Cultural, Scotland
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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...
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REALJimBob
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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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