As Birds Bring Forth The Sun And Other Stories (1992) - Plot & Excerpts
A delightful collection of crisp charged stories about Canadian Scots living in the beautiful, rough farming/fishing/logging/mining (heck, just about any type of work that demanded hard labor and danger) of the Cape Breton area of Nova Scotia. Well written, almost memoirish, with a fondness that infuses the stories, seemingly holding up the mostly male characters as admirable, honest, hard working, hard suffering, proud people. Description of life and land are wonderful. The stories sometime meander, and almost always have animals involved. I liked best the very first story about a Canadian miner getting ready to return to his duties with his crew to South Africa, as he contemplates the costs, as well as the art, of the life he has chosen deep in the mineshafts. MacLeod passed away this year, a strong and beautiful voice lost; although he is not as famous as some of the recently departed of this year (Angelou, Garcia Marquez, Gordimer), he is every bit worth picking up and trying. I recommend him.
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