cover image Eyestone

Eyestone

D. R. MacDonald. Penguin Books, $6.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-14-012020-2

``Here are nine stories so astonishingly vivid that the gales off Cape Breton chill your bones. The strong men who people these narratives mostly go to sea or, sometimes, like Jack MacLean in `Work,' into the forest to fell trees,'' wrote PW . These are tales to savor. (July)