Island: The Complete Stories, (Paperback)

from bobprior

Brilliant short stories, finely crafted with not a single wasted word. Beautifully captures the complex lives and relationships of seemingly simple people living difficult lives in a stark landscape.

from canread

The beautiful prose flows perfectly in these stories of a changing culture, the educated sons of fishermen, miners and farmers, and the burden they carry, that of the transitional ones who by doing their father's wishes will end their kind.

from abycats

I loved these stories because they tell of a particular place and time in beautiful language. MacLeod is know more for books like "Guns of Navarone" but this volume includes his heart. Highly recommended, but read (please) one story at a time to get the most complete satisfaction.

from Laurenbdavis

Alistair MacLeod, the Cape Breton, Nova Scotia writer who won the IMPAC award for the splendid book, NO GREAT MISCHIEF, is perhaps best known, at least in Canada, for his short stories. MacLeod has been called the bard of Cape Breton, where he was raised and where each of the sixteen stories in t...

from -Cee-

If you love reading about the sea and the hardscrabble life of islanders on the Atlantic coast of Canada, this book will play beautiful music deep in your heart. At first I had a little trouble immersing myself in a different culture. Ultimately, due to MacLeod's amazing ability to bare the human...