The lost salt gift of blood
Subtitle: new & selected stories
By: [by] Alistair MacLeod
Contributors: Preface / Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Ontario Review Press
Published: May 1988
Place of publication: Princeton, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780865380639
Copyright date: 1988
Subjects: Scots -- Canada -- Fiction.; Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Short stories
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.
Description: From back cover: MacLeod makes his American debut in these ... tales, in which powerfully depicted men and women -- farmers, fishermen, miners, lighthouse keepers -- realize their individual destinies in scenes of intense drama. Set amid the stark beauty of Cape Breton.
Notes: Published by arrangement with McClelland and Stewart.
[Published] in association with Persea Books.
Most of these stories were originally published in Canada by McClelland and Stewart: in The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986).
Distributed by George Braziller, Inc., New York, New York.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: vii; title: The Boat
pagenum: 1; title: In the fall
pagenum: 20; title: Second spring
pagenum: 35; title: The lost salt gift of blood
pagenum: 59; title: Island
pagenum: 78; title: To everything there is a season
pagenum: 111; title: Winter dog
pagenum: 118; title: As birds bring forth the sun
pagenum: 134; title: Vision
pagenum: 143; title: The road to Rankin's Point
pagenum: 179; title: The closing down of summer
pagenum: 206