{"product_id":"as-birds-bring-forth-the-sun-and-other-stories-isbn-9780771098826","title":"As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories","description":"The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s \u003ci\u003eAs Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the unquiet spirits of a Highland past, invoking memory and myth to celebrate the continuity of the generations even in the midst of unremitting change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis second collection, \u003ci\u003eAs Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e confirms MacLeod’s international reputation as a storyteller of rare talent and inspiration.“Alistair MacLeod’s stories are as regional and universal as the work of Faulkner or Chekhov. And they are, I think, as permanent.”\u003cbr\u003e—Michael Ondaatje\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“His writing moved from his heart to the page, and will always leap back from the page and into the heart of the reader.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jane Urquhart \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“MacLeod published but one novel, \u003ci\u003eNo Great Mischief\u003c\/i\u003e, and two short story collections, yet he was a giant of contemporary Canadian literature, a fact proven by the outpouring of grief, from coast to coast and around the world, in the wake of his death.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A consummate storyteller, MacLeod's great gift allowed him to touch readers worldwide with moving stories of the everyday lives of people that resonated with the warmth and the sadness of a universal humanity.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eHalifax Chronicle-Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlistair MacLeod\u003c\/b\u003e was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1936 and raised among  an extended family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. In  his early years, to finance his education he worked as a logger, a miner, and a fisherman,  and he wrote vividly and sympathetically about such work.\u003cbr\u003e     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.  For more than three decades, he taught creative writing at the University of Windsor, Ontario, where he was a professor of English.  \u003cbr\u003e     MacLeod’s only novel, \u003ci\u003eNo Great Mischief\u003c\/i\u003e, won the International  IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, the Thomas Raddall  Atlantic Fiction Award, the Trillium Book Award, 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. \u003cbr\u003e     He was also the author of two internationally acclaimed collections of short stories: \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Salt Gift of Blood\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) and \u003ci\u003eAs Birds Bring Forth the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e (1986). In 2000, these two books, accompanied by two previously unpublished stories, were brought together in a single-volume edition entitled \u003ci\u003eIsland: The Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e     Alistair MacLeod died in April 2014.","brand":"New Canadian Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299817345253,"sku":"NP9780771098826","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771098826.jpg?v=1767721832","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/as-birds-bring-forth-the-sun-and-other-stories-isbn-9780771098826","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}