Island The Complete Stories The genius of his stories is to render his fictional world as timeless Colm T ib nThe sixteen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair MacLeod to be a master Quietly precisely he has cre

The genius of his stories is to render his fictional world as timeless Colm T ib nThe 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 se The genius of his stories is to render his fictional world as timeless Colm T ib nThe 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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About " Alistair MacLeod "
Alistair MacLeod
When MacLeod was ten his family moved to a farm in Dunvegan, Inverness County on Nova Scotia s Cape Breton Island After completing high school, MacLeod attended teacher s college in Truro and then taught school He studied at St Francis Xavier University between 1957 and 1960 and graduated with a BA and B.Ed He then went on to receive his MA in 1961 from the University of New Brunswick and his PhD in 1968 from the University of Notre Dame A specialist in British literature of the nineteenth century, MacLeod taught English for three years at Indiana University before accepting a post in 1969 at the University of Windsor as professor of English and creative writing During the summer, his family resided in Cape Breton, where he spent part of his time writing in a cliff top cabin looking west towards Prince Edward Island.