num_pages: 448
description: Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, these stories are all concerned with the complexities and mysteries of the human heart. Steeped in memory and myth and washed in the brine and blood of the long battle with the land and the sea, they celebrate a passionate engagement with the natural world and a continuity of the generations in the face of transition - in the face of love and loss.
language: English
title: Island: Collected Stories
titlecomplete: Island: Collected Stories
genres: 20th Century, Canada, Short Stories, Unfinished, Canadian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2610
places: Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
publisher: Vintage