The house with the green shutters - George Douglas Brown

The most famous Scottish novel of the early twentieth century, The House with the Green Shutters has remained a landmark on the literary scene ever since it was first published in 1901.

Determined
to overthrow the sentimental 'kailyard' stereotypes of the day, George
Douglas Brown exposed the bitter pettiness of commercial greed and
small-town Scottish life as he himself had come to know it. More than
this, however, his novel lays bare the seductive and crippling presence
of patriarchal authority in Scottish culture at large, symbolised by the
terrible struggle between old John Gourlay and his weak but imaginative
son.

Illuminated by lightning flashes of descriptive
brilliance, Brown's prose evokes melodrama, Greek tragedy and postmodern
alienation in a unique and unforgettably powerful reading experience.