MacLeod, Alistair 1936-2014
No Great Mischief / Alistair MacLeod. - Toronto, ON : Emblem Editions, 2001, c1999. - 283 p. : cov. ill. ; 21 cm.
"In a family where "the brothers still speak Gaelic to each other; legends lurk at the edge of the simplest conversation; language and music are themselves links to a heroic, defeated past," Alexander MacDonald spends a summer in the mines with his wild older brother and cares for another brother, now a dying alcoholic." (Book Cover)
0771055706 (pbk)
Scots--Nova Scotia --Fiction.
Uranium Mines and Mining--Fiction.
Brothers--Fiction.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.)--Fiction.
Scottish Highlands.
Stories.
No Great Mischief / Alistair MacLeod. - Toronto, ON : Emblem Editions, 2001, c1999. - 283 p. : cov. ill. ; 21 cm.
"In a family where "the brothers still speak Gaelic to each other; legends lurk at the edge of the simplest conversation; language and music are themselves links to a heroic, defeated past," Alexander MacDonald spends a summer in the mines with his wild older brother and cares for another brother, now a dying alcoholic." (Book Cover)
0771055706 (pbk)
Scots--Nova Scotia --Fiction.
Uranium Mines and Mining--Fiction.
Brothers--Fiction.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.)--Fiction.
Scottish Highlands.
Stories.