Grey Granite (Summarized Edition)

Grey Granite, the culminating movement of A Scots Quair, transposes Gibbon's vision from the Mearns to the industrial city of Duncairn, where Chris Guthrie and her son confront the machinery of interwar modernity. The narrative anatomizes strikes, municipal corruption, and the seductions and betrayals of revolutionary politics, setting private loyalties against collectivist demands. Stylistically,...