![]() ![]() Others trace the pattern of exile and return in the lives of Cape Bretoners who yearn to escape their impoverished home but find themselves irresistibly drawn back, either in actuality or imagination. Several narratives involve the initiation of a child or young man into the knowledge of tragedy and the vanity of human aspirations. Francis Xavier University (BA and BEd), the University of New Brunswick (MA) and University of Notre Dame (PhD), and taught at the University of Windsor where he edited the University of Windsor Review.Īlistair MacLeod's stories, collected in The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories (1986), outline the folkways, socioeconomic realities and relationships of family and community in Cape Breton against the mythic backdrop of natural cycles. ![]() ![]() After living on the prairies, his family moved back to Inverness County, Nova Scotia, when he was 10. ![]() A chronicler of the landscape and people of Cape Breton, Alistair MacLeod is the author of three books of short stories, an acclaimed novel, and an illustrated Christmas story. Alistair MacLeod, OC, short story writer, novelist (born 20 July 1936 in North Battleford, SK died 20 April 2014 in Windsor, ON). ![]()
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