Book details

Being Dead

A Novel

Author: Jim Crace

Being Dead

Being Dead

$11.99

About This Book

A haunting new novel about love, death, and the afterlife, from the author of Quarantine

Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered...

Page Count
192
On Sale
04/02/2000

Book Details

A haunting new novel about love, death, and the afterlife, from the author of Quarantine

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."

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9781429980159

In The News

“A work of near-genius . . . [by] one of the most distinctive and talented writers of our time.” —Justin Cartwright, Literary Review

“Magnificent.” —Caroline Moore, The Sunday Telegraph

“A brilliant, astonishing novel.” —The Times (London)

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Being Dead

Being Dead

$11.99