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of finding new homes and mending old ones

author ofBeautiful Boy (2008)

With riots and unrest plaguing her country

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Island Colour Illustration of finding new homes andJoyce Carol Oates gives us a precise image of the experience of reading these stories: "that sudden feeling of insecurity that comes to a traveler in unmapped country; a sense of immediacy, cinematic in its vividness." The seventeen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair MacLeod to be a master. Quietly, precisely, he has created a body of work that is among the greatest to appear in English in the last fifty years. A book besotted