Jim Crace

• Apr-1987
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Jim Crace’s imaginative first book, seven linked stories, now available in a deluxe paperback edition in Ecco’s The Art of the Story Series“Makes us see our own world more clearly . . . brilliant, provocative and delightful” --the New York Ti...

• 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
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Signals of Distress tells the story of an American emigration vessel grounded off the coast of England in the 1830's. While the Belle of Wilmington waits to be refloated, the isolated community of Wherrytown offers what hospitality it can to the crew...

• 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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Jim Crace's novel is the brilliantly imagined story of Christ's forty days in the wilderness, a tale of three men, two women, and a curious wanderer whose peculiar fate is transformed into legend. Dazzling, gritty, and utterly compelling, Quarantine ...

• Sep-1999
• / General Fiction
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A haunting new novel about love, death, and the afterlife, from the author of QuarantineBaritone 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 ...

• 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...