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Being Dead

Being Dead

Crace, Jim

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Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0312275420
ISBN13: 9780312275426
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Mar 21 2001
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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.

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