The Lost Salt Gift of Blood |
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Author:
| MacLeod, Alistair |
ISBN: | 978-1-299-61626-4 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
Publisher: | New Canadian Library
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $46.62 |
Book Description:
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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 scrupulous fidelity to the reality of time and place, of sea and Maritime farm....
More DescriptionThe 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 scrupulous fidelity to the reality of time and place, of sea and Maritime farm.
Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, the seven stories of "The Lost Salt Gift of Blood" map the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child.
"From the Paperback edition."