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Alison MacLeod

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Born
Montreal, Canada
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Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction

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November 2017


Alison MacLeod is a novelist and short story writer. Her latest novel is TENDERNESS (2021/22), a Book of the Year for The New York Times, The Spectator, and The Hindustan Times. and a Best Paperback of 2022 for the Sunday Times. Her novel UNEXPLODED was long-listed for the Man-Booker Prize for Fiction, adapted for BBC Radio 4, and named one of the Observer‘s ‘Books of the Year’. Her short story collection ALL THE BELOVED GHOSTS was shortlisted for The Edge Hill Prize for best story collection in the UK and Ireland. It was a 'Best Book of 2017' for the Guardian, and a finalist for Canada’s 2017 Governor General’s Award for Fiction.

MacLeod was born in Montreal, Quebec of Nova Scotian parents and was raised in both Canada and the States. She ...more

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Unexploded
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Tenderness
3.88 avg rating — 556 ratings — published 2021 — 19 editions
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All the Beloved Ghosts
3.32 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions
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Wave Theory of Angels
3.35 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
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Fifteen Modern Tales of Att...
3.58 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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The Changeling
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The Heart of Denis Noble
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“The world yearns. This is its sure gravity: the attraction of bodies. Earth for molten star. Moon for earth. A hand for the orb of a breast. This is its movement too: the motion of desire, of a longing toward.”
― Alison MacLeod, Wave Theory of Angels
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“He decides it is better to die in Ireland than in Paris because in Ireland the outdoors looks like the outdoors and gravestones are mossy and chipped, and the letters wear down with the wind and the rain so everyone gets forgotten in time, and life flies on.”
― Alison MacLeod, All the Beloved Ghosts
tags: death, ireland, memory, nature, outdoors, paris, time
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“To imagine wasn’t to escape but to go deeper; to see through to the secret life of the world.”
― Alison MacLeod, Unexploded
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