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No Great Mischief

by Alistair Macleod

McClelland & Stewart | January 25, 2001 | Trade Paperback

Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family's mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in "the land of trees," where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, No Great Mischief is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, exile, and of the blood ties that bind us, generations later, to the land from which our ancestors came.


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Rating: 2/5

No Great Book

Deb

9 years ago

After reading many excellent reviews of this book, I was sorely disappointed when I finally had the opportunity to read it. Hoping for a soaring saga about the Scottish Highlanders who immigrated to Cape Breton, I was instead presented with endlessly repeated events that were not worthy of the time and space devoted to them. How much do we want to know about that single summer at the Renco mine? Not the level of detail MacLeod deemed necessary to include, I assure you. The characters are one-dimensional and not at all sympathetic. The endless use of quotes to highlight certain words, sometimes several in a single sentence, quickly becomes very annoying. Apart from a few poignant descriptions - usually of landscape - I found absolutely nothing memorable or exceptional about No Great Mischief. With the wonderful bounty of Canadian novels now available, don't waste your time on this one.

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