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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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Let's not circle around this topic. The point is clear: this is an absolutely boring recollection of one man's past. True, this is a well written memoir. However, what MacLeod fails to see is that not everyone is interested in his life. Okay, so maybe I am too harsh on him. I will give him full credit for the time and effort he took to write and publish this somewhat epic. Nevertheless, I wasted my time in reading it. The Gaelic took the cake. Most of the time I didn't know what he was talking about. Truly I tell you, this book can be passed off as my old History of the Higland Era. It's got the aura, but no necessity. A piece of interpretive literature, I will give it two points out of five for the meaning it has behind it. This review is from the point of view of a non-Scot. I thus don't feel compelled to Scottish history of any sort.

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Kandace Vuozzo

The Gaelic takes the cake in more ways than one. I was a Celtic Studies major in university and I found Macleod's Gaelic to be off. Maybe it was because he was using Cape Breton Gaelic, as opposed to Scottish Gaelic, I don't know... there just was something odd about it. Even if you couldn't understand, you didn't miss a lot!

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