SOURCE: Wood, James. “Clearances.” New Republic 224, no. 4509 (18 June 2001): 31-5.
In the following review, Wood discusses the principal characteristics of MacLeod's fiction in Island: The Complete Stories, contrasting them to the prevailing modes of American short story writing.
This is a free excerpt of 40 words. There are 4,467 words (approx.
15 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our Alistair MacLeod: Critical Review by James Wood Access Pass.
