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Original Title:	No Great Mischief
ISBN:	0393341194 (ISBN13: 9780393341195)
Edition Language:	English URL http://books.wwnorton.com/books/No-Great-Mischief/
Setting:	Canada Toronto, Ontario(Canada)
Literary Awards:	Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award (2000), Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book (2000), Trillium Book Award (2000), Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (2000), Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Nominee (1999) International Dublin Literary Award (2001)

No Great Mischief

Alistair MacLeod

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 10048 Users | 704 Reviews

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Title	:	No Great Mischief
Author	:	Alistair MacLeod
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	November 28th 2011 by W. W. Norton Company (first published September 30th 1999)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Canadian Literature

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Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief, the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it.


Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly unmitigated hardships and cruelties of life. Alexander, orphaned as a child by a horrific tragedy, has nevertheless gained some success in the world. Even his older brother, Calum, a nearly destitute alcoholic living on Toronto's skid row, has been scarred by another tragedy. But, like all his clansman, Alexander is sustained by a family history that seems to run through his veins. And through these lovingly recounted stories-wildly comic or heartbreakingly tragic-we discover the hope against hope upon which every family must sometimes rely.

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I absolutely loved this book. I would recommend this book to anyone, especially if they are descendents from Scotland or Ireland. It deals with the struggles that people have trying to hold onto their roots, yet becoming a part of a new society. It's the old world vs. the new world struggle. Some embrace the "modern" world and leave their family and their legacy to be part of this world, while others desperately hold onto whatever heritage they have left and forfeit a lot to do it.Another aspect

This was a Christmas gift from my mom, and it is also one that I would have bought for myself.It won several international awards, and the back cover and inside pages are lush with glowing reviews from across the literary landscape of esteemed writers and reviewers.(You can see where I'm going with this, can't you?)It's a story that roots itself, for the most part, in my birthplace, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia And, it's a novelization about the MacDonald clan! This novel had so much going for it

All this obsession with the family past and a wish to get down to the roots...No Great Mischief seems to be too ordinary to win so many prestigious literary awards and though I liked the novel I wasn't impressed greatly.In the landscape around me, those who harvest the bounty of the earth are stilled for the day. Yet they are there in the near-darkness with their own hopes and dreams and disappointments.At first there are great expectations then there are just hopes and then one keeps hoping

Alistair MacLoed Is Dead: Far from No Great MischiefThe news this weekend is that Alistair MacLeod, short story writer and novelist, is dead at 77. As it happened, we had a very stimulating discussion of his novel No Great Mischief on Wednesday at the Atwater Library. Most of the participants found much of interest in the book, although our resident dentist said the episode where one of the characters ties a rope around a tooth in order to pull it far from realistic.The book, which MacLeod

A friend recommended (and dropped off) this book for me to read. In contemplating my review, I've just decided to (word-for-word) hash out my text message to her on my feelings toward "No Great Mischief." That way I don't have to re-think my feelings for this book a second time.Conversation:Friend: Did you like it? (Don't be afraid to tell me your true thought).Me: "I thought the book was alright, but definitely not a favorite. Which slightly surprised me because this was a historical fiction

I guess this is not my sort of book. It is the tale of Scots in Cape Breton and in particular a branch of the MacDonalds, and makes much of how they never forgot their roots, always stick together, and still speak Gaelic. It won various prizes and is considered the best Atlantic Canadian novel. But how it got so esteemed I have no idea. I found it tiresome and longwinded. There is really not much of a plot except a bunch of disjointed anecdotes. The characters are little more than mouthpieces

This is the second time I've read this book, and I was teary-eyed at the end again. It's the story of the clann Chalum Ruaidh, or the Clan of Calum the Red, an 18th century Scottish Highlander who crossed the ocean to Nova Scotia. His family, the following clann, has to come to terms with the fact that their somewhat famous ancestor crossed the ocean to start a new life with his family...to what end? This is an absorbing novel, and MacLeod is an incredibly mature writer. With anyone else, it