Island: The Complete Stories - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393341188ISBN-10:393341186UPC:9780393341188Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCF6WPJMYV
The sixteen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair MacLeod to be a master. Quietly, precisely, he has created a body of work that is among the greatest to appear in English in the last fifty years.
A book-besotted patriarch releases his only son from the obligations of the sea. A father provokes his young son to violence when he reluctantly sells the family horse. A passionate girl who grows up on a nearly deserted island turns into an ever-wistful woman when her one true love is felled by a logging accident. A dying young man listens to his grandmother play the old Gaelic songs on her ancient violin as they both fend off the inevitable. The events that propel MacLeod's stories convince us of the importance of tradition, the beauty of the landscape, and the necessity of memory.
A book-besotted patriarch releases his only son from the obligations of the sea. A father provokes his young son to violence when he reluctantly sells the family horse. A passionate girl who grows up on a nearly deserted island turns into an ever-wistful woman when her one true love is felled by a logging accident. A dying young man listens to his grandmother play the old Gaelic songs on her ancient violin as they both fend off the inevitable. The events that propel MacLeod's stories convince us of the importance of tradition, the beauty of the landscape, and the necessity of memory.
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393341188ISBN-10:393341186UPC:9780393341188Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCF6WPJMYV
MacLeod, Alistair: - Alistair MacLeod (1936--2014), raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, was an acclaimed Canadian novelist, short story writer, and academic.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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