The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
 

The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (New Canadian Library)

by Alistair MacLeod

The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father.

Yet each piece of writing in this critically acclaimed collection is infused with a powerful life of its own, a precision of language and a... (read more)

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I agree wholeheartedly with philiproth. I'm also particularly fond of To Everything There Is A Season. Mr. Macleod is a marvelous writer. What every author should aspire to.

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  • frank c

    frank c said:

    Macleod has a gift for capturing the spirit of a people, a time and a locale. This short collection of stories is worth (at least) 2 thick academic tomes of stats, tables, and "facts" for understanding the relation of the maritimer to his natural environment. Macleod writes like a great writer (so he must therefore be one): he is UNIVERSAL in his appeal to a common humanity; he is ROOTED in a particular locale in which the common humaness evolves; his language is IDIOSYNCRATIC - he is impossible to translate without "flattening" his music. In one passage of absolute prose poetry a character evokes the lost world of pre-industrial rural Ireland with it's beliefs in signs and the magical interconnectedness of all things. He actually succeeds in making this alien world alive and plausible, seen from within, "inhabited" - an amazing feat, really

    posted Thursday, December 13 2007
  • PhilipRoth

    philiproth said:

    An astonishing little-known author. "In The Fall" is one of the finest short stories I have ever read

    posted Wednesday, August 22 2007
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