Alistair MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1936 and raised among an extended family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He still spends his summers in Inverness County, writing in a clifftop cabin looking west towards Prince Edward Island. In his early years, to finance his education he worked as a logger, a miner, and a fisherman, and writes 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. He has also taught creative writing at the University of...
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Barometer Rising
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-3489-3 (0-7710-3489-X)
December 4, 2007 | $19.95
Penelope Wain believes that her lover, Neil Macrae, has been killed while serving overseas under her father. That he died apparently in disgrace does not alter her love for him, even though her father is insistent on his guilt. What neither Penelope or her father knows is that Neil is not...
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-3489-3 (0-7710-3489-X)
December 4, 2007 | $19.95
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Penelope Wain believes that her lover, Neil Macrae, has been killed while serving overseas under her father. That he died apparently in disgrace does not alter her love for him, even though her father is insistent on his guilt. What neither Penelope or her father knows is that Neil is not...
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Island: The Collected Stories
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-1-4159-1134-1 (1-4159-1134-7)
August 13, 2001 | $26.00
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-1-4159-1134-1 (1-4159-1134-7)
August 13, 2001 | $26.00
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Island
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-5571-3 (0-7710-5571-4)
April 17, 2001 | $22.99
Alistair MacLeod has been hailed internationally as a master of the short story. Now MacLeod’s collected stories, including two never before published, are gathered together for the first time in Island. These sixteen superbly crafted stories, most of them firmly based in Cape Breton even if its people stray elsewhere, depict...
Written by Alistair MacLeod
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-5571-3 (0-7710-5571-4)
April 17, 2001 | $22.99
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Alistair MacLeod has been hailed internationally as a master of the short story. Now MacLeod’s collected stories, including two never before published, are gathered together for the first time in Island. These sixteen superbly crafted stories, most of them firmly based in Cape Breton even if its people stray elsewhere, depict...
No Great Mischief
Trade Paperback | 296 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-7710-5570-6 (0-7710-5570-6)
January 25, 2001 | $21.00
Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where...
Written by Alistair MacLeod
Trade Paperback | 296 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-7710-5570-6 (0-7710-5570-6)
January 25, 2001 | $21.00
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Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where...
Lives of Short Duration
Paperback | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9886-4 (0-7710-9886-3)
April 1, 1993 | $7.95
The Terris are engaging people, but they are a family in collapse. Alcoholism, drugs, and loveless sex have reduced them to a petty and wasted bunch. Worse, they typify aspects of the larger community besieged by financial woes and by creeping economic and cultural Americanization.
What David Adams Richards accomplishes is no...
Paperback | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9886-4 (0-7710-9886-3)
April 1, 1993 | $7.95
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The Terris are engaging people, but they are a family in collapse. Alcoholism, drugs, and loveless sex have reduced them to a petty and wasted bunch. Worse, they typify aspects of the larger community besieged by financial woes and by creeping economic and cultural Americanization.
What David Adams Richards accomplishes is no...
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories
Paperback | 176 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction
978-0-7710-9882-6 (0-7710-9882-0)
June 1, 1992 | $11.95
The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the...
Paperback | 176 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction
978-0-7710-9882-6 (0-7710-9882-0)
June 1, 1992 | $11.95
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The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the...
Barometer Rising
Paperback | 248 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9991-5 (0-7710-9991-6)
November 1, 1989 | $12.95
Penelope Wain believes that her lover, Neil Macrae, has been killed while serving overseas under her father. That he died apparently in disgrace does not alter her love for him, even though her father is insistent on his guilt. What neither Penelope or her father knows is that Neil is not...
Paperback | 248 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9991-5 (0-7710-9991-6)
November 1, 1989 | $12.95
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Penelope Wain believes that her lover, Neil Macrae, has been killed while serving overseas under her father. That he died apparently in disgrace does not alter her love for him, even though her father is insistent on his guilt. What neither Penelope or her father knows is that Neil is not...
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trade paperback.
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
Paperback | 168 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9969-4 (0-7710-9969-X)
July 1, 1989 | $12.95
The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father.
Yet each piece of writing in this...
Paperback | 168 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9969-4 (0-7710-9969-X)
July 1, 1989 | $12.95
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The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father.
Yet each piece of writing in this...
