Island
The Complete Stories
By Alistair MacLeod
(W. W. Norton & Company, Hardcover, 9780393050356, 448pp.)
Publication Date: February 2001
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Paperback
Categories: Short Stories (single author)
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Description
The stories in "Island" tell about death, family ties and the pull of traditions transplanted from Scotland to the harsh New World. Sixteen spare, evocative masterworks: men and women acting out their own peculiar mortality against the unforgiving landscape of cape Breton Island.











