Alistair MacLeod
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. He has also taught creative writing at the University of... He has created a body of work that ... [... more]
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood: New and Selected Stories
Rock your world: The raw emotional power I encountered within these stories sprang the off page like a fist, fracturing my complacency over and over. Nothing but Hemingway compares to Macleod's writing style.Uncomfortable truths lie here, expressed with [... more]
$11.95
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Island: The Complete Stories
 Amazon.com Review: "Once there was a family with a Highland name who lived beside the sea." So begins "As Birds Bring Forth the Sun," a 1985 entry from Island. The story continues, "And the man had a dog of which he was very fond. [... more]
$14.95
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Island: Collected Stories
Amazon.com Review: "Once there was a family with a Highland name who lived beside the sea." So begins "As Birds Bring Forth the Sun," a 1985 entry from Island. The story continues, "And the man had a dog of which he was very fond. [... more]
$16.50
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No Great Mischief
Extraordinary.: Alexander MacDonald, the narrator of this warm and ennobling family saga, comments to his brother that "Talking about history is not like living it...Some people have more choice than others." And there, in a nutshell, is the [... more]
$14.45
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No Great Mischief: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: For the MacDonalds, the past is not a foreign country. This Cape Breton clan may have lived in the New World since 1779, when Calum Ruadh ("the red Calum") and his wife, 12 children, and dog landed. Scotland, however, remains [... more]
$14.95
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
Story telling at its best: This is a collection of wonderful stories told by a master story teller in the old tradition. Unlike most other collections of stories these live in your ear. Most others live on the page. And these are truly American stories, [... more]
$8.95
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Barometer Rising (New Canadian Library)
INTROSPECTORS TRAPPED IN A WEB OF SUSPENSE: A very interesting and unusual novel, and MacLennan's first (--which seems astounding, given its stylistic sophistication). The plot is intricate and suspenseful, and three of the four main characters are [... more]
$10.95
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Island : The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod
An English Assignment Gone Well...: When I first picked up my copy of Island I had two thoughts. Wow this cover is pretty, and Wow this book is (relatively) big, at least to read in a week or so. However once I started reading the first few lines of & [... more]
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As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories (New ...
Author: Alistair Macleod Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780771098826 ISBN: 0771098820 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: 1992-06-01 Release Date: 1992-06-01 [... more]
$8.95
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No Great Mischief
Amazon.com Review: For the MacDonalds, the past is not a foreign country. This Cape Breton clan may have lived in the New World since 1779, when Calum Ruadh ("the red Calum") and his wife, 12 children, and dog landed. Scotland, however, remains [... more]
$23.95
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To Every Thing There Is a Season: A Cape Breton ...
Author: Alistair Macleod Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780771055652 ISBN: 077105565X Number Of Pages: 48 Publication Date: 2004-11-02 Release Date: 2004-11-02 [... more]
$14.95
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