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Island: the complete stories

✍ Scribed by Alistair MacLeod

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 230 KB
Edition: 1st American ed
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0393246825

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award: "The genius of his stories is to render his fictional world as timeless."--Colm ToibinThe 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.

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