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Island: The Complete Stories
Alistair Macleod
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Description for Island: The Complete Stories
paperback. Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award: The genius of his stories is to render his fictional world as timeless. Colm Toibin" Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 350.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393341188
SKU
V9780393341188
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About Alistair Macleod
Alistair MacLeod (1936—2014), raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, was an acclaimed Canadian novelist, short story writer, and academic.
Reviews for Island: The Complete Stories
"Cinematic in its vividness."
Joyce Carol Oates "Each story is charged with a place and way of life . . . mythical and particular at once."
Frederick Busch, author of The Night Inspector and Don't Tell Anyone
Joyce Carol Oates "Each story is charged with a place and way of life . . . mythical and particular at once."
Frederick Busch, author of The Night Inspector and Don't Tell Anyone