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69 reviews
Jim Crace

Picador, 1999

What Did Jesus Do?
According to the Christian Bible, when Jesus went into the wilderness to fast and pray, he ate no food and drank no water for forty days. According to the medical excerpt that introduces this novel, no human can survive a total fast for more than thirty days or stay conscious under those conditions for more than twenty five. So how did Jesus, who was, after all, a man, and depicted as no more ...

Genesis: A Novel (Crace, Jim)

11 reviews
Jim Crace

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003

a good read...
Reviewed by Steven Hansen, Small Spiral Notebook Two things in the novel Genesis that are transparently biblical in reference (if not in proportion) are a flood about halfway through, and the protagonist, Felix Dern's physiological mandate to 'Be fruitful and multiply,' with every female he has ever known. 'Known,' that is [insert wink and nudge here]... biblically speaking. Humanity isn't ...

Arcadia

6 reviews
Jim Crace

Harper Perennial, 1997

Things ChangeýOr Do They
Jim Crace is one of the most original authors I have had the pleasure of reading. I've now read four of his works having completed, "Arcadia", the third novel the author published. An easy error to make would be to state that Jim Crace does not write about topics that have never been tested before. My response would be that not many authors do. What sets the innovators apart from the imitators is ...

Continent

7 reviews
Jim Crace

Harper Perennial, 1988

THE LANDSCAPE AS CHARACTER
In Jim Crace's first novel (actually in disguise a seven stories), CONTINENT, the talented author of QUARANTINE and THE GIFT OF STONES has brought to life the very landscape of the story itself, making it the 'character' that all of the stories have in common, the thread that ties them all together. It is quite an invention -- unique, alien and unrecognizable, a seventh continent, unnamed, for ...

Being Dead
Jim Crace

Penguin Books Ltd, 2000

Signals Of Distress

10 reviews
Jim Crace

Harper Perennial, 1996

Different kinds of distress
Aymer Smith is a fussy, pretentious, absurd, lonely little man. It's impossible to like him, so he he has no friends, but it is possible to admire him by the time this lyrically beautiful tale ends. Aymer is a bourgeois liberal. The depth of his empathy for enslaved Africans and for struggling English laborers is difficult to discern, yet he does suffer physical hardship and severe injury for ...

The Devil's Larder
Jim Crace

Penguin Books Ltd, 2002

Being Dead: A Novel

111 reviews
Jim Crace

Picador, 2001

"You're dead. That's it. Adieu. Farewell."
What Jim Crace has written here is an ode to mortality and decomposition--a prose poem at once lyrical and earthy. Joseph and Celice--or to be precise, their corpses--lie unceremoniously on a beach after being bludgeoned to death by a deranged homeless man. In chapters not meant for the queasy, Crace details the microcosmic biological processes that naturally work their way over the next few days ...

The Pesthouse (Vintage)

26 reviews
Jim Crace

Vintage, 2008

The Pesthouse
This was a journey worth taking. I thought the author sprinkled the most interesting ideas and details into this distant, post-traumatic America, that gave real life to the story. The story could be compared to "The Road," in that there are people on a journey, but that's really where the comparison ends. Still, if you enjoyed "The Road," you won't be disappointed in "The Pesthouse."

Gift Of Stones

14 reviews
Jim Crace

Harper Perennial, 1996

The nature of storytelling explored
This short novel ruminates on a number of very interesting themes in an unusual way. It is a book about the nature of stories, the nature of people, and the ways that we think about ancient peoples. Most of all, though, it makes the reader think about how change affects individuals and groups ... all through the story of a young man and his daughter. If a book about the stone age conjures images ...

Six
Jim Crace

Penguin Books Ltd, 2004

The Devil's Larder: A Feast

12 reviews
Jim Crace

Picador, 2002

I loved this book
For no other reason than the stories captivated me. Each one so full of imagery. I just liked it; sometimes it's hard to say why a book is appealing, but this one is one of my favorites. If you get a chance, read it.

Arcadia
Jim Crace

Picador, 2008

Satans Speisekammer.
Jim Crace

Btb, 2004

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