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Island by Alistair MacLeod
Category: Literature
"Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, these stories are all concerned with the complexities and mysteries of the human heart. Steeped in memory and myth and washed in the brine and blood of the long battle with the land and the sea, they celebrate a passionate engagement wi ...Show more
Island: The Complete Stories by Alistair MacLeod
Category: Fiction
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 pr ...Show more
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
Category: Fiction
"In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees' until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan- red-haired and black-eyed, with its own identify, its own history ...Show more
No Great Mischief: A Novel by Alistair MacLeod
Category: Fiction
Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief, the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it. Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly unmitigated hardshi ...Show more
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