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9780393341188

Island The Complete Stories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393341188

  • ISBN10:

    0393341186

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-11-28
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Alistair MacLeod was raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and teaches at the University of Windsor, Ontario. He lives in Canada.

Table of Contents

The Boat (1968)p. 1
The Vastness of the Dark (1971)p. 26
The Golden Gift of Grey (1971)p. 59
The Return (1971)p. 79
In the Fall (1973)p. 98
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1974)p. 118
The Road to Rankin's Point (1976)p. 143
The Closing Down of Summer (1976)p. 180
To Every Thing There Is a Season (1977)p. 209
Second Spring (1980)p. 218
Winter Dog (1981)p. 249
The Tuning of Perfection (1984)p. 271
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1985)p. 310
Vision (1986)p. 321
Island (1988)p. 369
Clearances (1999)p. 413
Acknowledgementsp. 433
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