Being Dead by Jim Crace
The author ponders the redemptive power of secular love in this novel. Their bodies had expired, but anyone looking at them could see that Joseph and Celice were still devoted, the couple seemed to have achieved a peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. They were still man and wife, quietly resting, dead but not yet departed
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 | 9780670856985 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670856983 |
| Title | Being Dead |
| Author | Jim Crace |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1999-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1999, Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 1999 |
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