Alistair MacLeod

Cape Breton fabulist

by Keith Taylor

posted 4/1/2002

A large island in the middle of nowhere off the northeastern edge of mainland Nova Scotia, populated by the descendants of Scottish Highlanders fleeing the invading English and of British Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution, Cape Breton is a place unto itself, a world ripe for the creation of myths. And Alistair MacLeod is its born chronicler. Like many

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