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About this book
Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award: "The genius of his stories is to render his fictional world as timeless."—Colm Tóibín
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.
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Information
Publisher
W. W. Norton & CompanyYear
2011eBook ISBN
9780393246827Subtopic
Literature GeneralTable of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Editor’s Introduction
- Contents
- The Boat (1968)
- The Vastness of the Dark (1971)
- The Golden Gift of Grey (1971)
- The Return (1971)
- In the Fall (1973)
- The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1974)
- The Road to Rankin’s Point (1976)
- The Closing Down of Summer (1976)
- To Every Thing There is a Season (1977)
- Second Spring (1980)
- Winter Dog (1981)
- The Tuning of Perfection (1984)
- As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1985)
- Vision (1986)
- Island (1988)
- Clearances (1999)
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Praise for Island
- Other Books by Alistair MacLeod
- Copyright