Island (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Alistair MacLeod
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: The second half of the twentieth century
- Setting: Maritime Provinces of Canada; Newfoundland; northern Indiana
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Teenagers, Twentieth century, Betrayal, Midwest, 1980’s, Folklore, Canada or Canadians, 1990’s, Generation gap, Indiana
- Locales: Indiana, Newfoundland, Canada
Even though he had long been described as one of Canada’s finest writers, the general public became aware of Alistair MacLeod only after the publication of his bestselling first novel, No Great Mischief (1999). MacLeod is hardly prolific. Over a three-decade period, though he worked steadily on his short fiction, he produced just sixteen stories. All but one of them appeared initially in Canadian and American literary magazines, but they were later published in The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and in As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986), both of which had gone...
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