When MacLeod was ten his family moved to a farm in Dunvegan, Inverness County on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. After completing high school, MacLeod attended teacher's college in Truro and then taught school. He studied at St. Francis Xavier University between 1957 and 1960 and graduated with a BA and B.Ed. He then went on to receive his MA in 1961 from the University of New Brunswick and his PhD in 1968 from the University of Notre Dame. A specialist in British literature of the nineteenth century, MacLeod taught English for three years at Indiana University before accepting a post in 1969 at the University of Windsor as professor of English and creative writing. During the summer, his family resided in Cape Breton, where he spent part of his time "writing in a cliff-top cabin looking west towards Prince Edward Island."
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.
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.
海鸥是世上我见过最白的东西,白过家里的床单,白过那只粉红色眼睛、已经死去的兔子和冬天的第一场雪。 奶奶身上有肥皂水和热面包卷的味道。她问我喜不喜欢住在蒙特利尔。我从来没在其他地方住过,只好说我觉得还行。 爷爷身上则有肥皂水、烟草和皮革的味道。他问我火车上有没...
评分以往常常觉得自己的生活不值得书写。而自己却一再写下,写的是踩着现实事件的皮囊,那出窍魂灵一般的思绪,涂上修辞的粉饰——偶尔闲心没有被焦虑腐蚀的时候。 一则觉得太过寻常习惯,少有可以书写的触动。二则太过密切,写下的都在日记里,不想剥开来给人看。好的该安和宁静,...
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