Island Colour Illustration Yet as luck would have

Yet as luck would have it

of finding new homes and mending old ones

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold

author ofBeautiful Boy (2008)

but her parents tell her she will always be their little girl

Island Colour Illustration Yet as luck would haveJoyce Carol Oates gives us a precise image of the experience of reading these stories: "that sudden feeling of insecurity that comes to a traveler in unmapped country; a sense of immediacy, cinematic in its vividness." The seventeen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair MacLeod to be a master. Quietly, precisely, he has created a body of work that is among the greatest to appear in English in the last fifty years. A book besotted