- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday Canada (Oct 8 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385658893
- ISBN-13: 978-0385658898
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 15 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,574,831 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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D.R. MacDonald is known for his short stories of memory and loss set on Cape Breton Island and for his highly praised novel Cape Breton Road, an extended treatment of the same themes. In All the Men Are Sleeping, a selection of stories from the length of his career, MacDonald, whose own family left Cape Breton during the Second World War, documents the strong sense of place that is often paradoxically coupled with a history of economic displacement. That forced trajectory, movingly described in stories like "The Flowers of Bermuda" and "Ideas of North," extends all the way from the island of Iona in northern Scotland to California. Often, as in the title story, which takes the reader inside the consciousness of a woman trapped in a Cape Breton winter, the tender savagery of the Cape Breton environment plays a central role, which allows MacDonald to explore his ideas in a sensual rather than abstract way. MacDonald can be an unsentimental, even austere writer, but his work is not without its humorous moments. In "Whatever's Out There," a woman recalls her aging ex-husband "wringing his thinning gray hair into a ponytail that gave to his face the strained profile of a hood ornament." These stories reveal the depth of MacDonald's craft as well as his intimate familiarity with his material. --Robyn Gillam
Review
"In these quiet, sturdy, lore-filled stories, D. R. MacDonald finds in a nook of Nova Scotia a hidden, moody world that is as rich and legendary as William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. All the Men Are Sleeping cannot be matched for the integrity of its vision, the elegance of its writing, and the psychological weight of its themes." -- Ron Hansen
“All The Men Are Sleeping is one of our finest short story collections to come along in a long time… and is work not of promise but of fulfillment… These stories are nearly perfect. All The Men Are Sleeping is a rare and wonderful book that deserves to last.” -- The Toronto Star
“Such great and captivating fluency with the physical, the natural and most particularly with the human realm of events. These wonderful stories have been a revelation to me, as well as a needed assurance that there are great writers working long and patiently to get things right and who suddenly (or so it seems) break forth to amaze us. Mr. MacDonald is an extraordinary writer.”-- Richard Ford
“D. R. MacDonald is an exceptional writer.” -- Alistair MacLeod
“These stories are breathtaking.” -- Scott Turow
“These stories are about something, with people and feelings. They last in the mind, and if there is any justice, they could last on the shelf and in the tradition.” -- Wallace Stegner
Praise for Cape Breton Road
“Bold, complex . . . as nearly flawless as they come.” -- Toronto Star
“Gorgeous, muscular writing, with nothing sentimental about it.” -- The Globe and Mail
“All The Men Are Sleeping is one of our finest short story collections to come along in a long time… and is work not of promise but of fulfillment… These stories are nearly perfect. All The Men Are Sleeping is a rare and wonderful book that deserves to last.” -- The Toronto Star
“Such great and captivating fluency with the physical, the natural and most particularly with the human realm of events. These wonderful stories have been a revelation to me, as well as a needed assurance that there are great writers working long and patiently to get things right and who suddenly (or so it seems) break forth to amaze us. Mr. MacDonald is an extraordinary writer.”-- Richard Ford
“D. R. MacDonald is an exceptional writer.” -- Alistair MacLeod
“These stories are breathtaking.” -- Scott Turow
“These stories are about something, with people and feelings. They last in the mind, and if there is any justice, they could last on the shelf and in the tradition.” -- Wallace Stegner
Praise for Cape Breton Road
“Bold, complex . . . as nearly flawless as they come.” -- Toronto Star
“Gorgeous, muscular writing, with nothing sentimental about it.” -- The Globe and Mail
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