Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976 Book. Illus. by Carol Noel (cover). Very Good. Hardcover. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original tan tweedy cloth on boards. DJ not clipped, but light chipping along head. No writing and no other damage. The first full-length book by this author, comprised of seven stories: In the Fall, The Vastness of the Dark, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, The Return, The Golden Gift of Grey, The Boat, and The Road to Rankin's Point. 187 pp. NOTE: Since this book is on consignment, the usual 20 per cent discount to booksellers does not apply..

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Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1936 and raised among an extended family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He still spends his summers in Inverness County, writing in a clifftop cabin looking west towards Prince Edward Island. In his early years, to finance his education he worked as a logger, a miner, and a fisherman, and writes vividly and sympathetically about such work. His early studies were at the Nova Scotia Teachers College, St. Francis Xavier, the University of New Brunswick and Notre Dame, where he took his Ph.D. He has also taught creative writing at the University of Indiana. Working alongside W.O. Mitchell, he was an inspiring teacher to generations of writers at the Banff Centre. In the spring of 2000, MacLeod retired from the University of Windsor, Ontario, where he was a professor of English. He has published two internationally acclaimed collections of short stories: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986). In 2000, these two books, accompanied by two new stories, were published in a single-volume edition entitled Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod . In 1999, MacLeod’s first novel, No Great Mischief , was published to great critical acclaim, and was on national bestseller lists for more than a year. The novel won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, The Trillium Award for Fiction, the CAA-MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction, and at the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards, MacLeod won for Fiction Book of the Year and Author of the Year. No Great Mischief was also a finalist for the Pearson Canada Reader’s Choice Award at The Word on the Street. Alistair MacLeod and his wife, Anita, have six children. They live in Windsor. From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Dave Shoots, Bookseller (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004677
Title: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
Author: MacLeod, Alistair
Illustrator: Carol Noel (cover)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good Plus
Edition: First
ISBN 10: 0771055749
ISBN 13: 9780771055744
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Place of Publication: Toronto
Date Published: 1976
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: Short Stories. Canada. Maritimes.
Bookseller catalogs: Short Stories;

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