The Complete Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)

Publication: The New Yorker

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Malouf often sets the brutality of his native Australia against its exquisite natural beauty, and in these stories violence stalks his characters from the mangrove swamps of the Gulf country--"sheet after sheet of brimming water, all lit with sky and alive, like a page of Genesis"--to the beaches of...

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