No great mischief
First published 1999
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About this book
Historical novel/family saga.
The narrator Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family's mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan.
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There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in "the land of trees," where his descendants became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills.
And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, *No Great Mischief* is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, and of the blood ties that bind us to the land from which our ancestors came.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Alistair MacLeod
- First published
- 1999
- Edition
- No Great Mischief
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
- ISBN-13
- 9780771055706