{"product_id":"island-1","title":"Island","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e MacLeod, Alistair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e VINTAGE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 05-09-2002\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nThese slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces: apparently simple but actually crafted with enormous skill and precision. Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, they are all concerned with the complexities and mysteries of the human heart, the unbreakable bonds and unbridgeable chasms between man and woman, parent and child. Steeped in memory and myth and washed in the brine and blood of the long battle with the land and the sea, these stories celebrate a passionate engagement with the natural world and a continuity of the generations in the face of transition, in the face of love and loss. As John McGahern says in his eloquent foreword: 'the work has a largeness, of feeling, of intellect, of vision, a great openness and generosity, even an old-fashioned courtliness. The stories stand securely outside of fashion while reflecting deep change'. Bringing together all Alistair MacLeod's short fiction, and including two previously uncollected stories, Island represents the great achievement of one of the world's finest storytellers.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\nA lifetime's achievement in more than one sense ―\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nStartling in their simple perfection ―\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nProvokingly singular and rare, an island of richness ―\u003cbr\u003e\nGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBeautifully crafted stories: elegiac, honest, proud, and both eloquent and taciturn, like their subjects...a wonderfully talented writer ―\u003cbr\u003e\nMargaret Atwood\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nRarely does a great writer offer himself to us with an oeuvre so complete ―\u003cbr\u003e\nNew York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nAlistair MacLeod was born in 1936 and raised in Cape Breton, Nove Scotia. MacLeod is the author of two short story collections,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and\u003cbr\u003e\nAs Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories (1986) and the novel,\u003cbr\u003e\nNo Great Mischief, published in 1999. Written over the course of thirteen years,\u003cbr\u003e\nNo 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\u003cbr\u003e\nIsland, published in 2000. Alistair MacLeod died in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780099422327\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.7 x 5.0 x 1.2 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VINTAGE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50105367953712,"sku":"Trans_9780099422327","price":764.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/612hGX1mbEL.jpg?v=1756731616","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/products\/island-1","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}