Being Dead by Jim Crace

Being Dead by Jim Crace

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Summary

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

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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
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ISBN 13 9780140239751
ISBN 10 0140239758
Title Being Dead
Author Jim Crace
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2000-05-04
Number of pages 224
Prizes Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1999
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.