Island: Collected Stories
Collected Stories
$24.52
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
5 September 2002
Summary
These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces, apparently simple but actually crafted with enormous skill and precision. Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, they are all concerned with the complexities and mysteries of the human heart, the unbreakable bonds and unbridgeable chasms between man and woman, parent and child.
Steeped in memory and myth and washed in the brine and blood of the long battle with the land and the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099422327 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099422328 |
| Author: | Alistair MacLeod |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 5 September 2002 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
A lifetime’s achievement in more than one sense
“A lifetime’s achievement in more than one sense” Sunday Times “Startling in their simple perfection” Sunday Tribune “Provokingly singular and rare, an island of richness” Guardian “Beautifully crafted stories: elegiac, honest, proud, and both eloquent and taciturn, like their subjects…a wonderfully talented writer” Margaret Atwood “Rarely does a great writer offer himself to us with an oeuvre so complete” New York Times Book Review
About The Author
Alistair MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod was born in 1936 and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Windsor, Ontario.
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