Island
Joyce Carol Oates gives us a precise image of the experience of reading these stories: "that sudden feeling of insecurity that comes to a traveler in unmapped country; a sense of immediacy, cinematic in its vividness."
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…
Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1936 and raised among an extended family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. In his early years, to finance his education he worked as a logger, a miner, and a fisherman, and he wrote vividly and sympathetically about such work.
His early studies were at the Nova Scotia Teachers College, St. Francis Xavier, the University of New Brunswick and Notre Dame, where he took his Ph.D. For more than three decades, he taught creative writing at the University of Windsor, Ontario, where he was a professor of English.
MacLeod’s only novel, No Great Mischief, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction…
Island
Alistair MacLeod
Remembrance
Alistair MacLeod
To Every Thing There Is a Season
Alistair MacLeod; Illustrated by Peter Rankin
Lives of Short Duration
David Adams Richards, Afterword by Alistair MacLeod
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
Alistair MacLeod
No Great Mischief
Alistair MacLeod
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories
Alistair Macleod
Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro
The Prophet's Camel Bell
Margaret Laurence
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
Gil Courtemanche
Crackpot
Adele Wiseman
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
Home Truths
Mavis Gallant
The Curse of the Viking Grave
Farley Mowat
Cereus Blooms at Night
Shani Mootoo
Kiss of the Fur Queen
Tomson Highway
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
Drew Hayden Taylor
Who Do You Think You Are?
Alice Munro
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro
The Tomorrow-Tamer
Margaret Laurence
Children of My Heart
Gabrielle Roy