Author: Alistair MacLeod
Year: 1976
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Short Stories
Culture: Canada
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9780771099694
9780865380639
077109969X
0865380635 |
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The stories of
are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child's reality conflicts with his parents' memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father.
Yet each piece of writing in this critically acclaimed collection is infused with a powerful life of its own, a precision of language and a scrupulous fidelity to the reality of time and place, of sea and Maritime farm.
Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, the seven stories of
map the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child.
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