To Every Thing there is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story

About the Author\nOne of Canada's greatest writers, Alistair MacLeod is the author of Island: The Collected Stories, and No Great Mischief, which won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.\nPeter Rankin is a Cape Breton-based artist. He is the illustrator of the children's book Making Room.\nIt is Christmastime in Cape Breton, and a young boy describes the anticipation his family feels toward the holiday and most of all, to the homecoming of his older brother, Neil, working in Ontario on the "lake boats."
To Every Thing There is a Season was first published in 1977, yet its impact remains powerful to this day. This new softcover edition features 20 of Peter Rankin's splendid illustrations, a perfect complement to a classic Canadian Christmas story.