Island 
Subtitle: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod
Publisher: Random House
Published: April 8, 2000
Format: Unknown Binding
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780771055683
Subjects: Fiction - General; Fiction; Short Stories (single author)
First sentence: There are times even now, when I awake at four o'clock in the morning with the terrible fear that I have overslept; when I imagine that my father is waiting for me in the room below the darkened stairs or that the shorebound men are tossing pebbles against my window while blowing their hands and stomping their feet impatiently on the frozen steadfast earth.