Jim Crace
1) Harvest
Author
Language
English
Description
A remote English village wakes on the morning after harvest, looking forward to enjoying a hard-earned day of rest and feasting. But two mysterious columns of smoke mar the sky, raising alarm and suspicion.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • In this hauntingly evoked portrait of rural life, Jim Crace skillfully unravels the delicate fabric of a community in the wake of economic progress.
"In his compassionate curiosity and his instincts for insurgent uncertainty, Crace surely ranks among our greatest novelists of radical upheaval, a perfect fit for our unstable,...
"In his compassionate curiosity and his instincts for insurgent uncertainty, Crace surely ranks among our greatest novelists of radical upheaval, a perfect fit for our unstable,...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic American wasteland, an injured Franklin Lopez joins forces with Margaret, a woman suffering from a deadly infection and confined to the Pesthouse, as the two discover that their dreams of a safe future mean following an unexpected path.
4) Being dead
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, lie murdered in the dunes"--Cover jacket.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Aside from his trusty piano, Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his town for his music and songs, he is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days, occasionally performing the classics in small venues--never in the stadiums he could fill when in his prime. On the night before receiving his town's highest honor, Busi is wrested from bed by noises in his courtyard and then stunned by an attacking...
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