Light Lifting by MacLeod, Alexander

Light Lifting (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781897231944)

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Light Lifting by MacLeod, Alexander

Light Lifting

$16.95
Light Lifting by MacLeod, Alexander

Light Lifting

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK OF 2012
IRISH TIMES BOOK-TO-READ FOR 2012
ATLANTIC BOOK AWARD WINNER
FINALIST FOR THE GILLER PRIZE AND THE FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD
A GLOBE & MAIL, QUILL & QUIRE, AND AMAZON.CA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Engrossing, thrilling and ultimately satisfying: each story has the weight of a novel. --The Economist

This was the day after Mike Tyson bit off Evander Holyfield's ear. You remember that. It was a moment in history - not like Kennedy or the planes flying into the World Trade Center - not up at that level. This was something much lower, more like Ben Johnson, back when his eyes were that thick, yellow color and he tested positive in Seoul after breaking the world-record in the hundred. You might not know exactly where you were standing or exactly what you were doing when you first heard about Tyson or about Ben, but when the news came down, I bet it stuck with you. When Tyson bit off Holyfield's ear, that cut right through the everyday clutter. --from Miracle Mile

Two runners race a cargo train through the darkness of a rat-infested tunnel beneath the Detroit River. A drugstore bicycle courier crosses a forbidden threshold in an attempt to save a life and a young swimmer conquers her fear of water only to discover she's caught in far more dangerous currents. An auto-worker who loses his family in a car accident is forced to reconsider his relationship with the internal combustion engine.

Alexander MacLeod is a writer of ferocious intelligence and ferocious physicality (CTV). Light Lifting, his celebrated first collection, offers us a suite of darkly urban and unflinching elegies that explore the depths of the psyche and channel the subconscious hopes and terrors that motivate us all. These are elemental stories of work and its bonds, of tragedy and tragedy barely averted, but also of beauty, love and fragile understanding.


Author: Alexander MacLeod
ISBN-10: 1897231946
ISBN-13: 9781897231944
Publisher: Biblioasis
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2011
Pages: 219
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.60d
Award: Scotiabank Giller Prize - Finalist
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 11/01/2010 pg. 25
Quill & Quire Books of the Yr 12/01/2010 pg. 24

By Alexander MacLeod
By Alexander MacLeod
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Alexander MacLeod was born in Inverness, Cape Breton and raised in Windsor, Ontario. His first collection of short stories (Light Lifting, Biblioasis 2010), was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Prize, two Atlantic Book Awards, and went on to become a national bestseller. Alexander holds degrees from the University of Windsor, the University of Notre Dame, and McGill; he currently lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and teaches at Saint Mary's University in Halifax.

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