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Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams (Canons Book 4) Kindle Edition

by Alexander McCall Smith (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.1 27 ratings

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If he's in the right mood, divine Angus might grant you sight of your true love in a dream; you might even fall in love with him, but he'll never love you back. He's too busy making mischief, stealing the palace of the gods from his father, turning his enemies into pigs etc ; until he is trapped by his own romantic games and falls for an unattainable woman, doomed to seek her forever. In twentieth-century Scotland, Angus's troubled alter ego searches for his true family and identity; a psychotherapist who helps people understand their dreams, his life seems to parallel that of his mythic namesake, until we ask, could they be one and the same? Mesmerically weaving together the tales of the Celtic god and the Scottish scientist, Alexander McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our dreams?

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An enchanting tale ― The Times

Perhaps the finest I have read from the McCall Smith pen ― Scotsman

Reads like a fairytale for adults, a light, rose-tinted book . . . Well-written and smartly contemporary ― The Skinny

McCall Smith brings to the Angus story a sly and deceptive simplicity, combined with a charm that has a line of tight, sharp wire running all the way through it . . . A book that is full of small marvels . . . Resonant and deeply unsettling -- John Burnside ― Guardian

A gem-like piece of work ― Daily Telegraph

About the Author

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over fifty books, including the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels and several collections of short stories, including The Girl Who Married a Lion and Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations. Many of his books have become bestsellers throughout the world and he has received numerous awards for his writing, including the British Book Awards Author of the Year Award in 2004 and a CBE for Services to Literature in 2007. He lives in Scotland.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002VM7G5M
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Canongate Books; Main edition (November 2, 2007)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 2, 2007
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1905 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 193 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,643,024 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #13,379 in Mythology & Folk Tales (Kindle Store)
- #17,582 in Fairy Tale Fantasy (Kindle Store)
- #21,268 in Contemporary Literary Fiction

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Steve Benner

An interesting curio

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2010

This slim volume is a collection of five contemporary short stories, loosely connected via the threads of an interwoven retelling of the Celtic myth of the god Angus, bringer of Dreams. The writing here is much flatter than Alexander McCall Smith's normal style, with the mythical elements being treated as a bare recounting of events which, while pointing up the more immediate handling of the contemporary stories, nevertheless leaves the figure of Dream Angus so remote and detached that he becomes nothing more than one of the interconnecting threads upon which the other stories are hung.

The stories themselves are light-weight and insubstantial vignettes; snap-shots, really, of moments in lives where dreams have provided pivotal points in some way. This gentle recounting of far from momentous happenings -- of things which are of importance only at the individual, personal scale -- is one of McCall Smith's great fortes. He almost overdoes things here, though, especially as the book is nothing like long enough to win a reader over with any gentle, sustained insistence, as with, say, the The Sunday Philosophy Club (Isobel Dalhousie) series. The volume has some value as in interesting curio with which to wile an evening but offers little beyond that.

The Kindle edition is nicely prepared, with chapter ends marked in the progress indicator.

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