Being Dead
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Published:12th Sep '13
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An unflinching meditation on love and death from Booker shortlisted author Jim Crace
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD.
A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, at the spot where, almost thirty years before, they had first had sex as students. Nostalgia has sent Celice and Joseph back to their singing stretch of coast, but in the seeming calm of the afternoon they meet a brutal and unexpected fate – one which will still their bodies but not their love, and certainly not their story.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, at the spot where, almost thirty years before, they had first had sex as students. Nostalgia has sent Celice and Joseph back to their singing stretch of coast, but in the seeming calm of the afternoon they meet a brutal and unexpected fate – one which will still their bodies but not their love, and certainly not their story.
‘An extraordinarily moving love story’ Observer
‘A work of near-genius’ Literary Review
‘A swirling symphonic celebration of the glory of the natural world’ The Times
‘Intensely imagined and deeply felt’ Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times
‘One of the most haunting books I read this year’ Carol Shields, Guardian
‘Magnificent’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Astonishing’ Daily Telegraph
‘Astonishing’ Daily Telegraph
‘One of the most haunting books I read this year’ Carol Shields, Guardian
‘A classic’ Independent on Sunday
‘A work of near-genius’ Literary Review
‘Magnificent’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Intensely imagined and deeply felt’ Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times
‘A swirling symphonic celebration of the glory of the natural world’ The Times
- Short-listed for Whitbread Novel Award 2000 (UK)
ISBN: 9781447250326
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 14mm
Weight: 160g
224 pages