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Alistair Macleod
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 3:54 am
by Jackie
I'd like to write short stories like Alistair Macleod. I'm reading The Lost Salt Gift of Blood slowly, because I keep rereading parts.
Jackie
Re: Alistair Macleod
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:40 am
by David
Is he the Newfoundland writer, Jackie? If so, I read a collection of his years ago, and I remember being very impressed.
Cheers
David
Re: Alistair Macleod
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:21 pm
by Jackie
Hi David,
From Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He has such a strong voice. I think he takes the care over his writing that poets do. Even in his novel, No Great Mischief, you don't find extraneous sentences.
I think the stories in The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are included in a later collection, Island.
Jackie
Re: Alistair Macleod
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:38 pm
by Antcliff
A new name to me, Jackie. Thank you.
Well, the author is new.
The name is far from new.
Re: Alistair Macleod
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 1:07 pm
by Jackie
I was so sorry to read of this great author's passing over the weekend.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/acc ... -1.1783670
Re: Alistair Macleod
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:14 pm
by Antcliff
I will definitely try some of the short stories, Jackie.
Seth