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Being Dead
Jim Crace
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Description for Being Dead
Paperback. An unflinching meditation on love and death in Jim Crace's best-loved, groundbreaking novel Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 168.
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD.
A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, at the spot where, almost thirty years before, they had first had sex as students. Nostalgia has sent Celice and Joseph back to their singing stretch of coast, but in the seeming calm of the afternoon they meet a brutal and unexpected fate – one which will still their bodies but not their love, and certainly not their story.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447250326
SKU
V9781447250326
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Jim Crace
Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of eleven books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award). He lives in Birmingham.
Reviews for Being Dead
‘An extraordinarily moving love story’ Observer ‘A work of near-genius’ Literary Review ‘A swirling symphonic celebration of the glory of the natural world’ The Times ‘Intensely imagined and deeply felt’ Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times ‘One of the most haunting books I read this year’ Carol Shields, Guardian ‘Magnificent’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Astonishing’ Daily Telegraph ‘Astonishing’ Daily Telegraph ‘One of the most ... Read more