具体描述
The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father.
Yet each piece of writing in this critically acclaimed collection is infused with a powerful life of its own, a precision of language and a scrupulous fidelity to the reality of time and place, of sea and Maritime farm.
Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, the seven stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood map the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child.
作者简介
When MacLeod was ten his family moved to a farm in Dunvegan, Inverness County on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. After completing high school, MacLeod attended teacher's college in Truro and then taught school. He studied at St. Francis Xavier University between 1957 and 1960 and graduated with a BA and B.Ed. He then went on to receive his MA in 1961 from the University of New Brunswick and his PhD in 1968 from the University of Notre Dame. A specialist in British literature of the nineteenth century, MacLeod taught English for three years at Indiana University before accepting a post in 1969 at the University of Windsor as professor of English and creative writing. During the summer, his family resided in Cape Breton, where he spent part of his time "writing in a cliff-top cabin looking west towards Prince Edward Island."
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人生一世，能活得通透之人终究还是少数。人们大多还是会去感恩生命里的馈赠，却终究无法接受与之相承的背弃与失落。所以得意即尽欢，失意时慨叹便自己是这美丽世界的孤单弃儿几乎是大多数人生命的常态。可人们终要知道的是，生命这东西，落归到个人，终究是无比短暂的，短暂到...
海鸥是世上我见过最白的东西，白过家里的床单，白过那只粉红色眼睛、已经死去的兔子和冬天的第一场雪。 奶奶身上有肥皂水和热面包卷的味道。她问我喜不喜欢住在蒙特利尔。我从来没在其他地方住过，只好说我觉得还行。 爷爷身上则有肥皂水、烟草和皮革的味道。他问我火车上有没...
“时光永是流逝，街市依旧太平”。在看完Alistair MacLeod（译作 阿利斯泰尔·麦克劳德 1936-2014）的《海风中失落的血色馈赠》之后不到两天，就这两句话代替了这本小说中七个故事（即七个短篇）的大部分记忆。 这样的记忆轮转，一部分是因为这短短的七个故事情节太过简单，另...
