Island: The Complete Stories (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Island Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award: The genius of his stories is to render his fictional world as timeless. Colm T ib n
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 12 January 2012
- Format: Paperback 434 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
- ISBN 13: 9780393341188 ISBN 10: 0393341186
- Sales rank: 208,983
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Full description for Island
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.
