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Continent: Stories
Paperback
Series: Art of the Story, Book 9
ISBN13: 9780062662408
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Jun 13 2017
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Jim Crace's imaginative first book, seven linked stories, now available in a deluxe paperback edition in Ecco's The Art of the Story Series
Makes us see our own world more clearly . . . brilliant, provocative and delightful --the New York Times
Jim Crace's internationally acclaimed first book explores the tribes and communities, conflicts and superstitions, flora and fauna of a wholly spellbinding place: an imaginary seventh continent. In these seven tales Crace travels a strange and wonderful landscape: Talking Skull takes the reader to a tiny agricultural village renowned for the sexually-charged, mystical milk of its calves; Electricity introduces a remote flatland region where a monumental ceiling fan changes an entire town's attitude toward modernization. From the acacia scrub of the flatlands to a city bazaar jammed with vegetable stalls, tourists, and beggars, Crace's invented world is as fabulous as it is eerily familiar.
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