Provinstaun — gorod, volgotno raskinuvshiysya na krayu mysa Keyp-Kod, samoy vostochnoy tochki shtata Massachusets. Eto v pryamom smysle kray zemli: dalshe — Atlanticheskiy okean. Letom gorod polon turistov vseh mastey, a dolgoy zimoy nado prilagat usiliya, chtoby ne soyti s uma ot odinochestva. «Kray zemli» — sbornik korotkih rasskazov i ocherkov, opisyvayuschih etot gorod so vseh vozmozhnyh rakursov i vo vseh vozmozhnyh proyavleniyah: ot suvenirnyh lavok i pribrezhnyh restoranchikov do sovershenno neveroyatnogo magazina "Morskie pribludy" i drevneyshey v gorode "Apteki Adamsa". Prikidyvayas putevoditelem, eta kniga priglashaet progulyatsya po tonkoy kromke sushi, otdelyayuschey chelovecheskuyu tsivilizatsiyu ot beskraynego nevedomogo okeana, otdohnut v gorode, kotoryy mog by stat Raem, esli by na zemle byl vozmozhen Ray.