by Jim Crace · Picador USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140239751
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«Being Dead» is the literary fiction novel by Jim Crace, published by Picador USA in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Joseph and Celice, a middle-aged couple, return to the beach where they met and had their first intimate encounter almost thirty years earlier. They hope to rekindle their passion in the dunes, but that day ends in death and murder. Even so, the novel shows how their love survives the tragedy, even as their bodies are left exposed to the elements.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and finalist for the Whitbread Award for best novel.
Intended for book clubs and for those who enjoy literary narrative that addresses love and death with a lucid gaze.
James Crace is an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999, Crace was born in Hertfordshire and has lectured at the University of Texas at Austin. His novels have been translated into 28 languages—including Norwegian, Japanese, Portuguese and Hebrew.
