Jim Crace, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $20 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-13859-2
The line between nature and culture, according to Levi-Strauss, runs through our kitchens—between the raw and the cooked. In Crace's book of 64 food fables, the raw and the cooked are sequenced in sometimes bizarre ways: a woman remembers
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Jim Crace, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (246p) ISBN 978-0-374-22730-2
A starred or boxed review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred or boxed review.GENESISJim Crace. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23
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Jim Crace, Author . Doubleday/Talese $24.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-385-52075-1
In this postapocalyptic picaresque from Whitbread-winner Crace (for Quarantine
), America has regressed to medieval conditions. After a forgotten eco-reaction in the distant past, the U.S. government, economy and society have collapsed. The...
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Jim Crace, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-385-52076-8
Leonard Lessing, the British protagonist of Crace's surprisingly bad 10th novel (after The Pesthouse
), has Walter Mitty–like dreams of being a revolutionary that are invariably short-circuited by his fear of making a disturbance. In 2006,
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Jim Crace, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (138p) ISBN 978-0-06-015724-1
Crace's continent is mainly dry and under-developed, peopled by bureaucrats and country folk whose conflicting values give these loosely connected chapters their essential tension. In ""Electricity,'' the wiring of a small village pits superstition...
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Jim Crace, Author Atheneum Books $20 (320p) ISBN 978-0-689-12158-6
British novelist Crace again proves himself an assured storyteller and master craftsman in his third novel, a sardonic, witty morality tale. Moreover, he seems a brilliant chameleon. His previous books, Continent and The Gift of Stones (both...
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Jim Crace, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $22 (275p) ISBN 978-0-374-26379-9
A diversity of imaginative settings distinguishes the work of this brilliant British writer, who has portrayed various historical periods in such outstanding novels as The Gift of Stones and Arcadia. The background of this engrossing narrative is a...
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Jim Crace, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (242p) ISBN 978-0-374-23962-6
This extraordinary novel, a sometimes realistic, sometimes hallucinatory account of the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness, is the latest by England's Crace, a writer of great gifts (The Gift of Stones, Continent), and was reportedly the runner-up
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Jim Crace, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $21 (196p) ISBN 978-0-374-11013-0
Crace is a brilliant British writer whose novels are always varied in historical setting, voice, theme and writing style, and are surprising in content. Those very factors may have contributed to his failure to establish a literary identity and to...
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Jim Crace. Doubleday/Talese, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-52077-5
In his previous 10 novels, the versatile Crace has been heralded for his firmly rooted, painstakingly detailed impressions of time and place, and his latest work is no exception. In fact, the setting—an isolated English farming village, in an...
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Jim Crace. Doubleday/Talese, $26.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-54371-2
This haunting and transfixing novel by the British author of Being Dead and Quarantine is set in a world just parallel to our own, somewhere on the edge of a nameless sea. Widowed Alfred Busi, semiretired from a career as a world-famous musician,...
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