No great mischief
MacLeod, Alistair
No great mischief / Alistair MacLeod - Toronto : McClelland & Stewart , c1999. - 283 p. ; 24 cm.
From the moment Alexander MacDonald sets out along Highway 3 in southwestern Ontario to visit his alcoholic brother living in a cheap Toronto lodging house, this sturdily textured debut novel never hesitates or meanders. There are plenty of diverse characters, changing scenes, and gripping incidents to keep it rolling. Four generations of MacDonalds move through the pages of this bookDfrom the first to arrive in Cape Breton from Scotland in 1779 to narrator Alexander, an orthodontist, and his siblings. MacLeod, who has been heralded in his native Canada as a master of the short story, exhibits a remarkable ability to create and handle an intricate plot that goes back and forth between past and present.
Winner International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2001
9780771055706
00302546
Scots----Fiction
Mines and mining----Fiction
Young men----Fiction
Brothers----Fiction
Nova Scotia----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PR9199.3.M3342 / N6 1999
FIC MAC
No great mischief / Alistair MacLeod - Toronto : McClelland & Stewart , c1999. - 283 p. ; 24 cm.
From the moment Alexander MacDonald sets out along Highway 3 in southwestern Ontario to visit his alcoholic brother living in a cheap Toronto lodging house, this sturdily textured debut novel never hesitates or meanders. There are plenty of diverse characters, changing scenes, and gripping incidents to keep it rolling. Four generations of MacDonalds move through the pages of this bookDfrom the first to arrive in Cape Breton from Scotland in 1779 to narrator Alexander, an orthodontist, and his siblings. MacLeod, who has been heralded in his native Canada as a master of the short story, exhibits a remarkable ability to create and handle an intricate plot that goes back and forth between past and present.
Winner International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2001
9780771055706
00302546
Scots----Fiction
Mines and mining----Fiction
Young men----Fiction
Brothers----Fiction
Nova Scotia----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PR9199.3.M3342 / N6 1999
FIC MAC
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