Being Dead

Being Dead - Paperback

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Being Dead - Paperback

Being Dead - Paperback

by Jim Crace
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by Jim Crace (Author)

A National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner

From 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 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."

Author Biography

Jim Crace is the author of seven novels, including Quarantine, which won the 1997 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize for Fiction. His novels have been translated into eighteen languages. He lives with his wife and children in Birmingham, England.

Number of Pages: 208
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: March 21, 2001
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Being Dead
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 10
ISBN9780312275426
Author Jim Crace
PublisherPicador USA
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2001
LanguageENG- English
Pages208
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Jim Crace

JIM CRACE is the author of ten previous novels. Being Dead was shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Fiction Prize and won the U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2000. In 1997, Quarantine was named the Whitbread Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Jim Crace has also received the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Guardian Fiction Prize. He lives in Birmingham, England.

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