"A great writer.... Talent like his needs no hype."-"The New York
Times Book Review
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"The work of a superb...patient craftsman."-"The Boston Globe"
"This stormy Cape Breton Island...is a place you will never forget,
illuminated by a writer whose name you will always remember."-"San
Francisco Chronicle
""A remarkable reading experience.... MacLeod clearly has a
distinctive literary voice... His writing is seamless, rather like
a Heifetz CD or a Sinatra or Fitzgerald song.... His stories are
artfully crafted."-"The New York Times
"
"MacLeod writes of bonds of love and family that transcend time and
distance and all the circumstantial dividers that life imposes, and
does it with as much heart as any writer ever has."-"The Dallas
Morning News
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"An extraordinary excursion in exquisite prose that will satisfy
and sustain you for many years."-"The Tampa Tribune"
"Like the poignant lament of a Scottish piper.... A masterful
evocation of a displaced people caught between past and
present."-"Kirkus
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"A treat for anyone who loves good writing."-"Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel
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"MacLeod is, in the truest sense, the bard of his native Cape. His
stories are strong, deep, and as powerful as the sea: absolutely
memorable."-Andrea Barrett"
""Each story is charged with a place and way of life both alien and
somehow familiar.... The honest emotion is as sensually rendered as
the blood, salt, and waterlogged wood of Cape Breton...and every
word feels true."-Frederick Busch
"One of the great undiscovered writers of our time." -- Michael
Ondaatje
"It's hard to think of anyone else who can cast a spell the way
Alistair MacLeod can." -- Alice Munro
"Alistair MacLeod is a wonderfully talented writer." -- Margaret
Atwood
"This stormy Cape Breton Island . . . is a place you will never
forget, illuminated by a writer whose name you will always
remember." -- "San Francisco Chronicle
"s combined worldliness,
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