Being Dead by Jim Crace
A National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner
From the author of Quarantine comes Being Dead, Jim Crace's haunting novel about love, death, and the afterlife.Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered in the dunes. Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell--just look at them--that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching her, curved round her shin, the couple seemed to have achieved that peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. Anyone who found them there, so wickedly disfigured, would nevertheless be bound to see that something of their love had survived the death of cells. The corpses were surrendered to the weather and the earth, but they were still a man and wife, quietly resting; flesh on flesh; dead, but not departed yet.
JIM CRACE is the author of eleven previous novels. His most recent, Harvest, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the International Dublin Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2000, Being Dead won the U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and in 1997, Quarantine was named the Whitbread Novel of the Year and was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Jim Crace has also received the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Guardian Fiction Prize. He lives in England.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374110130 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374110131 |
| Title | Being Dead |
| Author | Jim Crace |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Farrar Straus Giroux |
| Year published | 2000-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 196 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) 2000, Winner of ALA Notable Books (Fiction) 2001 |
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