- Hardcover: 48 pages
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart; 1st Edition edition (Nov 2 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 077105565X
- ISBN-13: 978-0771055652
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #85,344 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The story is simple, seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. As an adult he remembers the way things were back home on the farm on the west coast of Cape Breton. The time was the 1940s, but the hens and the cows and the pigs and the sheep and the horse made it seem ancient. The family of six children excitedly waits for Christmas and two-year-old Kenneth, who liked Halloween a lot, asks, “Who are you going to dress up as at Christmas? I think I’ll be a snowman.” They wait especially for their oldest brother, Neil, working on “the Lake boats” in Ontario, who sends intriguing packages of “clothes” back for Christmas. On Christmas Eve he arrives, to the delight of his young siblings, and shoes the horse before taking them by sleigh through the woods to the nearby church. The adults, including the narrator for the first time, sit up late to play the gift-wrapping role of Santa Claus.
The story is simple, short and sweet, but with a foretaste of sorrow. Not a word is out of place. Matching and enhancingthe text are black and white illustrations by Peter Rankin, making this book a perfect little gift.
For readers from nine to ninety-nine, our classic Christmas story by one of our greatest writers.
The story is simple, short and sweet, but with a foretaste of sorrow. Not a word is out of place. Matching and enhancingthe text are black and white illustrations by Peter Rankin, making this book a perfect little gift.
For readers from nine to ninety-nine, our classic Christmas story by one of our greatest writers.
About the Author
Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and raised among an extended family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He has published two internationally acclaimed collections of short stories: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986). In 2000, these two books, accompanied by two new stories, were published in a single-volume edition entitled Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod. In 1999, MacLeod’s first novel, No Great Mischief, was published to great critical acclaim, and was on national bestseller lists for more than a year. The novel won many awards, including the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Alistair MacLeod and his wife, Anita, have six children. They live in Windsor, Ontario.
Peter Rankin was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He specializes in illustrating the traditional way of life there. A fisherman as well as an artist, in 2004 he illustrated Making Room, a children’s book by Joanne Taylor that was published by Tundra Books, for which he won the 2004 Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration. He lives in Mabou Coal Mines with his wife and their five children.
Peter Rankin was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He specializes in illustrating the traditional way of life there. A fisherman as well as an artist, in 2004 he illustrated Making Room, a children’s book by Joanne Taylor that was published by Tundra Books, for which he won the 2004 Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration. He lives in Mabou Coal Mines with his wife and their five children.
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What's wrong with the world?, Jan 19 2012
By steve b. - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: To Every Thing There Is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story (Hardcover)
Well, for one thing, it's that no one seems to have heard of this great Christmas tale from an author whose steady excellence is almost unknown south of Canada.
MacLeod evokes a simpler time in a Canadian province that few Americans will be familiar with. But it is a Christmas story for all of us.
A young boy comes to the time when Santa Claus passes from reality to parental creation. While leaving the myth behind, he presents a portrait of his entry into adulthood and of a family more worthy of affection than any red-suited visitor.
There is so much schlocky Christmas fiction out there. Mac Leod gives us an honest, touching, masterful Christmas tale.
Virtually all his short stories are outstanding. This one is a fine place to introduce yourself to him.
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