Winner of the International Impac Dublin Literary Award
'A brilliant and haunting novel'
Daily Mail
Alistair MacLeod was born in 1936 and raised in Cape Breton, Nove Scotia. MacLeod is the author of two short story collections, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories (1986) and the novel, No Great Mischief, published in 1999. Written over the course of thirteen years, No Great Mischief won numerous Canadian literary awards and the 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. All of his published short stories, plus one new piece, were collected in Island, published in 2000. Alistair MacLeod died in 2014.
You will find scenes from this majestic novel burned into your mind
forever
*Alice Munro*
One of the great undiscovered writers of our time
*Michael Ondaatje*
The novel is close to being a masterpiece. The characters, the
light and the weather, the story itself - its beautiful tone and
shape, its harsh and melancholy music - stay with you for days
afterwards. The novel is simply breathtaking in its emotional
range
*Irish Times*
Exceptional... The book is pervaded by the humour and colour;
intensely vivid, and very, very moving
*Independent*
Alistair MacLeod is a wonderfully talented writer
*Margaret Atwood*
From the moment Alexander MacDonald sets out along Highway 3 in southwestern Ontario to visit his alcoholic brother living in a cheap Toronto lodging house, this sturdily textured debut novel never hesitates or meanders. There are plenty of diverse characters, changing scenes, and gripping incidents to keep it rolling. Four generations of MacDonalds move through the pages of this bookDfrom the first to arrive in Cape Breton from Scotland in 1779 to narrator Alexander, an orthodontist, and his siblings. MacLeod, who has been heralded in his native Canada as a master of the short story, exhibits a remarkable ability to create and handle an intricate plot that goes back and forth between past and present. Though sentimentality plays a considerable part in the unfolding of the drama, MacLeod's clever writing disciplines and subdues it. The book deserves to be a big popular success.DA.J. Anderson, GSLIS, Simmons Coll., Boston Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
You will find scenes from this majestic novel burned into your mind
forever -- Alice Munro
One of the great undiscovered writers of our time -- Michael
Ondaatje
The novel is close to being a masterpiece. The characters, the
light and the weather, the story itself - its beautiful tone and
shape, its harsh and melancholy music - stay with you for days
afterwards. The novel is simply breathtaking in its emotional range
-- Colm Toibin * Irish Times *
Exceptional... The book is pervaded by the humour and colour;
intensely vivid, and very, very moving * Independent *
Alistair MacLeod is a wonderfully talented writer -- Margaret
Atwood
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