The lost salt gift of blood
By: Alistair MacLeod ; with an afterword by Joyce Carol Oates.
Series: New Canadian Library
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Toronto,Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Description: This collection of 11 stories, set for the most part in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, uses detailed description of the stark, beautiful landscape and the lives of fishermen, farmers, miners, and lighthouse keepers to convey a powerful range of feelings. A Canadian writer not well known in the United States, MacLeod draws on childhood memories and on folktales of Ireland and Scotland, often writing in the first person and using Gaelic quotations to enhance the melancholy moods. A special blending of myth and reality here preserves impressions from a time and place that will never exist again.
Notes: First published, 1976.