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Title: Cape Breton Road: A Novel by D. R. Macdonald ISBN: 0-15-100523-0 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 25 January, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Gem of a Book
Comment: Cape Breton Road by D.R. MacDonald is the story of a young man with a good heart but a penchant for taking risks like "borrowing" fancy cars. Banished from the US to live with his uncle in Canada, he picks a spot high up in the hills to secretly cultivate marijuana, a cash crop "guaranteed" to buy his independence. When he falls painfully, hopelessly in love with the uncles live-in girlfriend, the tension and bitterness between the two men begins to mount. Cape Breton Road is a charming story that holds you in suspense as you hope against hope that this wholesome but naive young man won't get caught at some of his "indiscretions". Beautiful prose, wonderfully descriptive and insightful . . .a work of art.
Rating: 3
Summary: cheated
Comment: I gave this book three stars for one reason. It had a very unsatisfactory ending. I felt cheated. The conclusion was not an ending in the real sense.
It left several questions unanswered. The most important ones being the fate of the protagonist and his uncle. The author either ran out of interest, or made the beginners error of letting the reader come up with his own ending.
The book and characters was so very vivid and beautifully drawn that you could literally breathe the air and atmosphere. Then we are left high and dry.
This writer is no amateur. He is brilliant. I loved this book. And because I did, because I cared about the characters, i wish he had done a better job on the conclusion.
Still and all, I intend to read his other books. I guess that is the real test.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must-Read: Cape Breton Road
Comment: Other reviewers have given plot details and discussed their reactions to the novel's ending, so I'll just cut to the chase: Cape Breton Road is amazingly well-written -- without the prolixity and gratuitous detail of so many contemporary novelists. Its prose is lean and spare, and therefore intense. Every detail strikes the reader as authentic; every experience woven into the plot has been "earned" or "lived" -- come by honestly and set down with something akin to reverence. Its presentation of nature and its impact on the observer are fine and true, reminiscent of D. H. Lawrence at his best, as in Sons and Lovers. Cape Breton Road is destined to become a word-of-mouth classic.
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Title: Island: The Complete Stories by Alistair MacLeod ISBN: 0375713042 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod ISBN: 0375726659 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: All the Men Are Sleeping: Stories by D. R. Macdonald ISBN: 1582432414 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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