Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award: “The genius of his stories is to render his fictional world as timeless.”—Colm Tóibín
The sixteen exquisitely crafted stories inIsland prove Alistair Mac Leod 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 Mac Leod’s stories convince us of the importance of tradition, the beauty of the landscape, and the necessity of memory.
Circa l’autore
Alistair Mac Leod (1936—2014), raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, was an acclaimed Canadian novelist, short story writer, and academic.
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 448 ● ISBN 9780393246827 ● Dimensione 0.7 MB ● Casa editrice W. W. Norton & Company ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2011 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7468233 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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