Island
- Publisher
- Thistledown Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1989
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920633663
- Publish Date
- Sep 1989
- List Price
- $200.00
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Description
This special limited edition was published in handsomely designed cloth with dust jacket and artwork by Kath Kornelson Rutherford. Each copy is numbered and signed by the author.
About the author
Alistair MacLeod was born in Saskatchewan in 1936 and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He has published two internationally acclaimed collections of short stories: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986). In 2000, these two books, accompanied by two new stories, were published as Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod. In 1999, MacLeod's first novel, No Great Mischief, was published to stellar critical acclaim. The novel won the Dartmouth Book Award, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, The Trillium Award, the CAA Award, and the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards for Fiction Book of the Year and Author of the Year. In 2001, No Great Mischief was awarded the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the world's most prestigious literary prizes.