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Collected Works
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Canadian writer Norman MacDonald’s complete literary oeuvre in one electronic edition!

The “Collected Works” contains four full-length novels, many short stories and essays, plus personal writing.

The novel “Lost Magnificence” carries the reader to logging camps, where the author spent formative years, with this entertaining tale of adventure and romance. Readers who have enjoyed “The Old Man and the Sea” for its simplicity and reflective insights will be attracted to “Lost Magnificence”.

"The Bugle Trilogy" is Norman MacDonald's epic story of a young man who resists his country's push towards police-state militarization and war. Written at the height of the Cold War, this timeless work draws the reader in, and remains sharply relevant as social commentary. Its powerful and narrative invites comparison to Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" and other works of conscience.

MacDonald was captivated by Hemingway's suggestion that there was "A literature that has not yet been written": one that extends beyond superficial characteristics and finds its ground more purely in a place where people of all cultures find relevance and affinity.

MacDonald’s novels and short stories go beyond Hemingway’s later writing style, completely omitting such usual defining details as the proper names of characters and locations. Though some might think these particulars are essential to storytelling, MacDonald proves that by not “nailing down” the narrative to a specific time and place, an even more compelling narrative may be achieved.

In his Essays, MacDonald describes his writing techniques in detail, and argues that the result (“Humanilit”) is a completely new world literature.

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Release dateDec 19, 2014
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Collected Works
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Norman MacDonald

Norman MacDonald was born in British Columbia in 1933. Except for excursions to Nova Scotia, California and Alaska, he lived there all his life. He lived in mining, fishing and logging towns as well as in Vancouver, and he worked on construction projects deep in the wilderness.A graduate of the University Of British Columbia, Norm became a schoolteacher to support his wife and two sons. However, he always felt that his real vocation was to develop what he finally came to call humaniwriting and Humanilit, a somewhat different approach to narration.The turning point of Norm’s life came when he read The Old Man And The Sea and noticed how Ernest Hemingway had dealt with names in it. Practically all of his own work followed from that, and in Lost Magnificence he acknowledges his debt to Hemingway by reminding readers of his great story. Perhaps the only other thing these authors have in common is the high value they place on simplicity — though they value it for different reasons.Norman MacDonald passed away in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2014.

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