Island (short story collection)

For other books of the same title, see Island.

Island

First hardback edition published February 2001
Author	Alistair MacLeod
Language	English
Published	2000
Publisher	McClelland & Stewart W. W. Norton & Company
Publication place	Canada
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	320 (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	0-393-05035-1

Island is a book of short stories by Alistair MacLeod, first published in 2000 by McClelland and Stewart.

The book collects all of the short stories published in MacLeod's earlier collections, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories, as well as two previously unpublished stories. The volume was published because the success of MacLeod's 1999 debut novel No Great Mischief revived interest in MacLeod's prior work, which was largely out of print by this time.

Stories

• "The Boat"
• "The Vastness of the Dark"
• "The Golden Gift of Grey"
• "The Return"
• "In the Fall"
• "The Lost Salt Gift of Blood"
• "The Road to Rankin's Point"
• "The Closing Down of Summer"
• "To Every Thing There Is a Season"
• "Second Spring"
• "Winter Dog"
• "The Tuning of Perfection"
• "As Birds Bring Forth the Sun"
• "Vision"
• "Island"
• "Clearances"

Adaptations

In 2018 Filmmakers Tom Gentle and Rupert Clague adapted "In The Fall" to screen, choosing to shoot the film in Orkney, Scotland.