Island: The Complete Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393341188)

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.

Author: Alistair MacLeod
ISBN-10: 0393341186
ISBN-13: 9780393341188
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2011
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20d