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No Great Mischief
"NO GREAT MISCHIEF", a 1999 award-winning Canadian novel by Alistair MacLeod, bursts on the literary scene like a modern-day epic, written in prose, not verse. Filled with Gaelic music and poetry, like"The moon is the light of the poor",the novel tells the story of three year-old twins, orphaned when their parents are drowned walking the drift ice back to the island where the father is employed as the lighthouse keeper. Brought up by the fath...