· Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod – review An unusual collection of short stories that dwells on the significance of the little things in life Runners train in the early bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. Light Lifting - Kindle edition by MacLeod, Alexander. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note 4/5(20). Light Lifting, Alexander MacLeod’s long-awaited first collection of short stories, offers us a suite of darkly urban and unflinching elegies for a city and community on the brink. These are stories of work and its bonds, of tragedy and tragedy barely averted, but also of love and beauty and fragile understanding.
Light Lifting, Alexander MacLeod's long-awaited first collection of short stories, offers us a suite of darkly urban and unflinching elegies for a city and community on the brink. These are stories of work and its bonds, of tragedy and tragedy barely averted, but also of love and beauty and fragile understanding. "Alexander MacLeod's control of cadence and rhythm is so complete that it seems effortless. [These stories] contain a rare kind of truthfulness." —Colm Toibin "Light Lifting shows MacLeod is a honed storyteller. What will surprise, and surely impress, is the fresh, imaginative subject matter. Alexander MacLeod 'lifted' my stories. All I said was that he stole my stories. He being Alexander MacLeod, one of Canada's rising literary personalities, a Giller short-lister for his story collection Light Lifting (Biblioasis) and the son of Alistair Macleod (but he doesn't much care to talk about that - the whole dad thing).
DOWNLOAD or READ Light Lifting () in PDF, EPUB formats. review 1: Alexander MacLeod's first collection of stories is distinguished by a raw, muscular qualit. Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod – review An unusual collection of short stories that dwells on the significance of the little things in life Runners train in the early morning. "The stories in Alexander MacLeod's Light Lifting are dense with the tragic poetry of the everyday. His narrators speak in a deceptively relaxed vernacular that reflects a fierce emotional intensity just beneath the surface of the words, the stoic heroism of the common man and woman, and MacLeod's commitment to realistic story-telling.".
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