Jim Crace: 12 books

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...

Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his tiny Mediterranean town for his music, he is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days. Then one night, Busi is viciously attacked by an intruder in his own courtyard—bitten and scratched. He insists...

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year On the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a remote English village awaken looking forward to a hard-earned day of rest and feasting at their landowner's table. But the sky is marred by two conspicuous...

Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States has become sparsely populated and chaotically unstable. Across the country, families have traveled toward the one hope left: passage on a ship to Europe. As Franklin Lopez makes his way towards the ocean, he finds Margaret, a sick...

Jim Crace's novel is the brilliantly imagined story of Christ's forty days in the wilderness, a tale of three men, two women, and a curious wanderer whose peculiar fate is transformed into legend. Dazzling, gritty, and utterly compelling, Quarantine is a work at once timeless and timely - a parable for the ages.

A major new novel about sex and the citizen by the award-winning author of Being Dead The timid life of actor Felix Dern is uncorrupted by Hollywood, where his success has not yet been shackled with any intrusive fame. But in the theaters and the restaurants of his own city, "Lix"...

The prodigiously talented Jim Crace has returned with a new novel that explores the complexities of love and violence with a scenario that juxtaposes humor and human aspiration.  British jazzman Leonard Lessing spent a memorable yet unsuccessful few days in Austin, Texas, trying to seduce...

A sumptuous, scintillating stew of sixty four short fictions about appetite, food, and the objects of our desire All great meals, it has been said, lead to discussions of either sex or death, and The Devil's Larder, in typical Cracean fashion, leads to both. Here are sixty four short fictions...

Signals of Distress tells the story of an American emigration vessel grounded off the coast of England in the 1830's. While the Belle of Wilmington waits to be refloated, the isolated community of Wherrytown offers what hospitality it can to the crew, but the Americans prove to be a disturbing presence....

A haunting new novel about love, death, and the afterlife, from the author of Quarantine 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...

Het is de laatste dag van de oogst en de lucht is vol verwachting over het naderende oogstfeest als drie vreemdelingen zich aandienen in een kleine boerengemeenschap. Diezelfde nacht breekt er een brand uit in een van de opslagschuren. Buitenstaander Walter Thorsk ziet gedurende de week die daarop volgt het leven in het eens zo vredige dorp ingrijpend en onomkeerbaar veranderen.

De oude chansonnier Alfred Busi slijt zijn dagen in de prachtige vervallen villa aan de kust waar hij is opgegroeid. Zijn leven lijkt bezig aan het slotakkoord; hij is weduwnaar en mist zijn vrouw; binnenkort wordt hij geëerd om zijn verdiensten voor zijn geboorteplaats. Al kijkt hij terug op een...