The Lost Salt Gift of Blood

Literature & Fiction

Alistair MacLeod

Contemporary

Flamingo

No Great Mischief

In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum McDonald set sail from the Scottish highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey, Calum settles his family in "the land of the trees" until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan, with its own identity and history.

Vintage Books

Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd

The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood 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 The Lost Salt Gift of Blood map the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child.

United States

New Canadian Library

Island: The Complete Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

W.W.Norton and Company

About the Author\nOne of Canada's greatest writers, Alistair MacLeod is the author of Island: The Collected Stories, and No Great Mischief, which won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.\nPeter Rankin is a Cape Breton-based artist. He is the illustrator of the children's book Making Room.\nIt is Christmastime in Cape Breton, and a young boy describes the anticipation his family feels toward the holiday and most of all, to the homecoming of his older brother, Neil, working in Ontario on the "lake boats." 
To Every Thing There is a Season was first published in 1977, yet its impact remains powerful to this day. This new softcover edition features 20 of Peter Rankin's splendid illustrations, a perfect complement to a classic Canadian Christmas story.

To Every Thing there is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story

Genre Fiction

Nimbus Publishing

Perte et le fracas (La)

Literary

BOREAL

Cet héritage au goût de sel

Instant même (L')

Entdecker

Dorling Kindersley Verlag

The Best American Short Stories 1969, Martha Foley and David Burnett, editors, Houghton Mifflin, 1969 first printing. 328 pages

Best American Short Stories: 1969

BERNARD MALAMUD

David Madden

Norma Klein

John Bart Gerald

Mark Costello

James Alan McPHERSON

Jack Cady

Maeve Brennan

Mary Gray Hughes

Mary Josephine Lavin

Matthew W. McGregor

John R. Milton

Houghton/Mifflin

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