Jim Crace

• Apr-1987
• / General Fiction
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In this award-winning collection, the world is “skewed just enough . . . to make us see our own world more clearly. . . . brilliant, provocative and delightful.” (TheNew York Times Book Review).Jim Crace’s internat...

• Nov-1992
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A novel on the theme of city life set in the present day and looking back over 80 years. Crace`s earlier novels have won “ The Guardian” Fiction Prize, the David Higham Prize, the Whitbread First Novel and the Chianti Ruffino prize in Italy.

• Oct-1995
• / General Fiction
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“With beguiling narrative ease and prose lyric . . . a quiet tale of strangers thrown together by caprice . . . [who] find their lives are unintentionally and irreversibly linked.” -- New York Times Book ReviewSigna...

• May-1996
• / General Fiction
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Set before the advent of the Bronze Age, The Gift of Stones centers around a community of stoneworkers who live in a village near the sea. Wealthy and complacent, they survive by the trade of their unrivaled skills, secure in the supremacy of thei...

• Mar-1998
• / General Fiction
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A controversial novel of faith and mystery about a group of desert travelers and their encounter with Jesus.Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker Prize finalistA New York Times Notable BookA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearQua...

• Sep-1999
• / General Fiction
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A National Book Critics Circle Awards WinnerFrom 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 ...

• Oct-2001
• / General Fiction
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A sumptuous, scintillating stew of sixty four short fictions about appetite, food, and the objects of our desireAll great meals, it has been said, lead to discussions of either sex or death, and The Devil's Larder, in typical Cracean fashion, leads t...

• Jan-2003
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• Nov-2003
• / General Fiction
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A major new novel about sex and the citizen by the award-winning author of Being DeadThe timid life of actor Felix Dern is uncorrupted by Hollywood, where his success has not yet been shackled with any intrusive fame. But in the theaters and the rest...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States has become sparsely populated and chaotically unstable. Across the country, families have traveled toward the one hope left: passage on a ship to Europe. As Franklin Lopez makes his w...

• Apr-2010
• / Literary
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Set in Texas and the suburbs of England, All That Follows is a novel in which tender, unheroic moments triumph over the more strident and aggressive facets of our age. British jazzman Leonard Lessing has spent a memorable yet unsuccessful few days...

• Feb-2013
• / Literary
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A remote English village wakes on the morning after harvest, looking forward to enjoying a hard-earned day of rest and feasting. But two mysterious columns of smoke mar the sky, raising alarm and suspicion. The first column of smoke comes from the...

• Jun-2018
• / Fantasy
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A tender new novel about music, celebrity, local intrigue, and lost love--all set by the Mediterranean Sea Aside from his trusty piano, Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his town for his music and songs, he is mo...

• Aug-2022
• / General Fiction
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From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest and Quarantine, a gorgeous, unforgettable retelling of the myth of Eden.The inhabitants of Eden are untouched by death. In the garden they care for their orchards and the land, and give thanks for...