ISLAND: THE COLLECTED STORIES, by Alistair MacLeod (2000 1st Ed.)

Author: Alistair MacLeod. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, ON., 2000, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book, with Almost New Condition Unclipped Dust Jacket. Clean inside, tight spine. 

ISLAND...THE COLLECTED STORIES, showcases Alistair MacLeod's short story collection, including two never before published, all gathered together here for the first time ever!

These sixteen superbly crafted stories, most of them firmly based in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, even if its people stray elsewhere, depict men and women living out their lives against the haunting landscape that surrounds them. Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, MacLeod maps the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child, and invokes memory and myth to celebrate the continuity of the generations, even in the midst of unremitting change.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1936 and raised among an extended family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. In his early years, to finance his education he worked as a logger, a miner, and a fisherman, and he wrote 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. For more than three decades, he taught creative writing at the University of Windsor, Ontario, where he was a professor of English.

MacLeod’s only novel, No Great Mischief, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Trillium Book Award, the CAA-MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction, and at the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards, MacLeod won for Fiction Book of the Year and Author of the Year. He was also the author of two internationally acclaimed collections of short stories: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986). In 2000, these two books, accompanied by two previously unpublished stories, were brought together in a single-volume edition entitled Island: The Collected Stories. Alistair MacLeod died in April 2014.