This was my first book by DR MacDonald, and it won't be my last. I live in CB, and have read several of A. MacLeod's collections, MacDonald's novel compared well, and similarly on many levels, which I think is not too bad to say. At the same time, he has his own voice and way of looking at the is...
This unnerving, lyrical tale of suspense --about an aging ex-boxer in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, forced to quit the ring when he developed a heart condition --lilts with the slow,repetitive rhythms of Islanders' speech, and delves deep into Scottish Gaelic ancestral folklore as well as that of the...