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Dream Angus

In twentieth-century Scotland and Canada, different dreams are dreamed; different stories told. How is it, then, that they feel so familiar? Is it Dream Angus who haunts us still and brings us love? McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our dreams?

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  • "Dream Angus"@it
  • "Dream Angus"@pl

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  • "In Alexander McCall Smith's retelling, five different young men named Angus find themselves living the myths of the Celtic deity, Angus--from his search for the girl he loves to his discovery that the man who raised him is not his father."
  • "In twentieth-century Scotland and Canada, different dreams are dreamed; different stories told. How is it, then, that they feel so familiar? Is it Dream Angus who haunts us still and brings us love? McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our dreams?"@en
  • "In a retelling of an ancient Celtic myth about Angus, the god of love, youth, and beauty and a trickster who turns one's romantic dreams upside down, five young men named Angus parallel the god's story as they search for true love."
  • "In a retelling of an ancient Celtic myth about Angus, the god of love, youth, and beauty and a trickster who turns one's romantic dreams upside down, five young men named Angus parallel the god's story as they search for true love."@en
  • "Retells the myth of Angus the giver of dreams, a figure of the Celtic mythology of Ireland and Scotland."
  • "Dream Angus is one of the earliest of the Celtic deities, and one of the most beloved. Angus comes bounding over the heather with his bag of dreams to dispense to those who want them. He is lithe of foot and beautiful? as befits one who is also the Celtic Eros, the god of love, youth and beauty. Angus is a playful trickster, given to frightening people and cattle. He will reveal to you in a dream your true love, if asked, and if in the mood. He is a romantic, and one of the main stories associated with him is his search for the young woman who had appeared to him in his dreams. Eventually he finds her, but she is under a spell which makes her assume the shape of a bird for a year. Angus changes himself into a swan and the two lovers fly off together. In McCall Smith?s inimitable retelling of the myth, the setting is twentieth century Scotland. Angus is a psychotherapist who helps people understand their dreams, but there are limits to what he can reveal. Mesmerically weaving the modern day with the tales of the Celtic god, Alexander McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our dreams?"@en
  • ""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?"--Publisher's Website."@en
  • "In a retelling of an ancient Celtic myth about Angus, the god of love, youth, and beauty, and a trickster who turns one's romantic dreams upside down, five young men named Angus parallel the god's story as they search for true love."@en
  • "Angus, Celtic God and mischief-maker, falls in love with an unattainable woman in 20th century Scotland. Meanwhile, a psychotherapist named Angus, specialising in dreams, searches for his true family -- the two characters' tales are woven together."

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  • "Translations"
  • "Love stories"
  • "Adaptations"@en
  • "Fiction"@sv
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Folklore"@en
  • "Folklore"
  • "Powieść szkocka"@pl
  • "Large type books"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Dream Angus"
  • "Dream Angus"@en
  • "Dream Angus : the Celtic God of Dreams"@en
  • "Dream Angus the celtic god of dreams"
  • "Unien Angus : myytti kelttiläisestä unijumalasta"
  • "Dream Angus the Celtic god of dreams"@en
  • "Dream Angus : the Celtic god of dreams"@en
  • "Drömguden : myten om Angus"@sv
  • "Dream Angus : the Celtic god of dreams"
  • "Yi yu meng zhong ren"
  • "Dream Angus the Celtic God Of Dreams"@en
  • "Dream Angus The Celtic God of Dreams"@en
  • "Dream Angus the Celtic God of dreams"@en
  • "Labutí boh lásky : mýtus o Angusovi, keltskom bohovi snov"
  • "De droomgod : de mythe van Angus"
  • "Drömguden : Myten om Angus"
  • "Unien Angus myytti kelttiläisestä unijumalasta"@fi
  • "Angus od snów : celtycki bóg snów"
  • "Angus od snów : celtycki bóg snów"@pl
  • "Dream Angus : the Celtic God of dreams"@en
  • "Dream Angus : the Celtic God of dreams"
  • "Il dio dei sogni"@it
  • "Il dio dei sogni"

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