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Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award: “The guru of his stories would be to make his imaginary planet as timeless.”—Colm TóibínThe sixteen exquisitely-crafted stories in Area show Alistair MacLeod to be always a master. Silently, correctly, he's produced a body of work that's one of the best to surface in English within the last fifty years. A book- his only son is released by besotted patriarch in the responsibilities of the ocean. When he hesitantly offers the household mount His young son is provoked by a father to assault.