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Island 

The Collected Short Stories of Alistair Macleod 

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Alistair MacLeodIsland (2000)
The Collected Short Stories of Alistair Macleod
A collection of stories by Alistair MacLeod

 
"Beautifully crafted stories elegiac, honest, proud, and both eloquent and taciturn. Like their subjects... a wonderfully talented writer."
Margaret Atwood


Sixteen spare, evocative masterworks: men and women acting out their own peculiar mortality against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton Island. Alistair MacLeod's reputation as one of Canada's most important writers has rested largely on the stories collected in this book. There stories are about death, family ties, and the pull of traditions transplanted from Scotland to the harsh New World. Joyce Carol Oates describes the experience of reading these stories: "that sudden feeling of insecurity that comes to a traveler in unmapped country a sense of immediacy, cinematic in its vividness."

 
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Hardback Editions

June 2001 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0224061941Title: Island: Collected Stories
Author(s): Alistair MacLeod
ISBN: 0-224-06194-1 / 978-0-224-06194-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
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February 2001 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0393050351Title: Island: The Complete Stories
Author(s): Alistair MacLeod
ISBN: 0-393-05035-1 / 978-0-393-05035-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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2000 : Hardback
Title: Island: The Collected Short Stories of Alistair MacLeod
Author(s): Alistair MacLeod
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
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2000 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0771055684Title: Island: The collected short stories of Alistair MacLeod
Author(s): Alistair MacLeod
ISBN: 0-7710-5568-4 / 978-0-7710-5568-3 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: M&S
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Paperback Editions

November 2011 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0393341186Title: Island: The Complete Stories
Author(s): Alistair MacLeod
ISBN: 0-393-34118-6 / 978-0-393-34118-8 (USA edition)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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September 2002 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0099422328Title: Island: Collected Stories
Author(s): Alistair MacLeod
ISBN: 0-09-942232-8 / 978-0-09-942232-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Vintage
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March 2002 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0375713042Title: Island: The Complete Stories
Author(s): Alistair MacLeod
ISBN: 0-375-71304-2 / 978-0-375-71304-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
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April 2001 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0771055714Title: Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod
Author(s): Alistair MacLeod
ISBN: 0-7710-5571-4 / 978-0-14-301384-6 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: Emblem Editions
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2000 : Paperback
Title: Island
Author(s): Alistair MacLeod
ISBN: 0-9980225-4-3 / 978-0-9980225-4-3
Publisher: Norton
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1989 : Paperback
Title: Island
Author(s): Alistair MacLeod
ISBN: 0-920633-66-8 / 978-0-920633-66-3 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: Thistledown Press
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2001 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 0736671706Title: Island: the Collected Stories
Author(s): Alistair MacLeod
ISBN: 0-7366-7170-6 / 978-0-7366-7170-5 (USA edition)
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January 2001 : Unknown
Title: ISLAND The complete stories
Author(s): Alistair. MacLEOD
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