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Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker Prize finalist. Two thousand years ago four travellers enter the Judean desert to fast and pray for their lost souls. In the blistering heat and barren rocks they encounter the evil merchant Musa — madman, sadist, rapist, even a Satan — who holds them in his tyrannical power. Yet there is also another, a faint figure in the distance, fasting for forty days, a Galilean who they say has the power to work miracles... Here, trapped in the wilderness, their terrifying battle for survival begins...]]> Wed, 29 Oct 1997 18:31:24 +0200 All That Follows https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56729-all_that_follows.html https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56729-all_that_follows.html All That Follows
Set in Texas and the suburbs of England, All That Follows is a novel in which tender, unheroic moments triumph over the more strident and aggressive facets of our age. British jazzman Leonard Lessing spent a memorable yet unsuccessful few days in Austin, Texas, trying to seduce a woman he fancied. During his stay, he became caught up in her messy life, which included a new lover, a charismatic but carelessly violent man named Maxie. Eighteen years later, Maxie enters Leonard's life again, but this time in England, where he is armed and holding hostages. Leonard must decide whether to sit silently by as the standoff unfolds or find the courage to go to the crime scene where he could potentially save lives, as only someone who knows Maxie can. The lives of two mothers and two daughters - all strikingly independent and spirited - hang in the balance. All That Follows provides moving and surprising insights into the conflict between our private and public lives and redefines heroism in this new century. It is a masterful work one of England's brightest literary lights. From the Hardcover edition.]]> Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:31:24 +0300 The Gift of Stones https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56728-the_gift_of_stones.html https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56728-the_gift_of_stones.html The Gift of Stones
From the acclaimed author of Quarantine, a mesmeric novel that breathes life into a distant age.]]> Sat, 29 Oct 1988 18:31:24 +0300 The Devil's Larder https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56727-the_devils_larder.html https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56727-the_devils_larder.html The Devil's Larder
A literary feast of sheer imagination and indulgence, from the Booker-shortlisted author of Quarantine.]]> Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:31:24 +0200 Genesis https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56731-genesis.html https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56731-genesis.html Genesis
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" is celebrated and admired for his looks, for his voice, and for his unblemished private life. He has succeeded in courting popularity everywhere, this handsome hero of the left, this charming darling of the right, this ever-twisting weather vane. A perfect life? No, he is blighted. He has been blighted since his teens, for every woman he sleeps with bears his child. So now it is Mouetta's turn. Their baby's due in May. Lix wants to say he feels besieged. Another child? To be so fertile is a curse... In Genesis, Jim Crace, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the Whitbread Novel of the Year, charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man, the sexual emancipation of a city, and the sexual ambiguities of humankind.]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:31:24 +0200 The Pesthouse https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56730-the_pesthouse.html https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56730-the_pesthouse.html The Pesthouse
Jim Crace is a writer of spectacular originality and a command of language that moves a reader effortlessly into the world of his imagination. In The Pesthouse he imagines an America of the future where a man and a woman trek across a devastated and dangerous landscape, finding strength in each other and an unexpected love.

Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States is now a lawless, scantly populated wasteland. The machines have stopped. The government has collapsed. Farmlands lie fallow and the soil is contaminated by toxins. Across the country, families have packed up their belongings to travel eastward toward the one hope left: passage on a ship to Europe. Franklin Lopez and his brother, Jackson, are only days away from the ocean when Franklin, nearly crippled by an inflamed knee, is forced to stop. In the woods near his temporary refuge, Franklin comes upon an isolated stone building. Inside he finds Margaret, a woman with a deadly infection and confined to the Pesthouse to sweat out her fever. Tentatively, the two join forces and make their way through the ruins of old America. Confronted by bandits rounding up men for slavery, finding refuge in the Ark, a religious community that makes bizarre demands on those they shelter, Franklin and Margaret find their wariness of each other replaced by deep trust and an intimacy neither one has ever experienced before. The Pesthouse is Jim Crace’s most compelling novel to date. Rich in its understanding of America’s history and ethos, it is a paean to the human spirit.]]> Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:31:24 +0200 Continent https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56734-continent.html https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56734-continent.html Continent
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the David Higham Award.]]> Wed, 29 Oct 1986 18:31:25 +0300 Harvest https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56732-harvest.html https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56732-harvest.html Harvest
Jim Crace at the top of his game! Allegory, moral fable - a label doesn't really matter. We are taken into the English countryside, to a village with no name - just The Village - at a time which could be any time from the 15th to the 19th century. Extraordinary writing, a prose that over and over touches poetry, wonderful and evocative details, take us to this village and its story told over seven days by Walter Thirsk. A traditional end-of-harvest celebration and a centuries-old way of life, is tragically and brutally overturned. Outside
forces of power and greed arrive and with them the culture of "Profit,Progress,Enterprise". Enclosures will soon end what had been a collective style of farming: common land will be stolen from the common people; forests will be cleared and everything will
be fenced and hedged and "the sheaf" give "way to sheep". "Harvest" is about loss, displacement, dispossession. What it deals with may be set in a past we can't pin down exactly, but such inhuman practices that accompanied the forced enclosing of land, the destruction of ordinary people's lives and
the further enrichment of already rich men, are so evident today across the world, that "Harvest" speaks as much of today as it does of the past.]]> Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:31:24 +0200 Being Dead https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56733-being_dead.html https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56733-being_dead.html Being Dead
'An extraordinarily moving love story' Observer A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, at the spot where, almost thirty years before, they had first had sex as students. Nostalgia has sent Celice and Joseph back to their singing stretch of coast, but in the seeming calm of the afternoon they meet a brutal and unexpected fate - one which will still their bodies but not their love, and certainly not their story. 'A work of near-genius' Literary Review 'A swirling symphonic celebration of the glory of the natural world' The Times 'Intensely imagined and deeply felt' Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times 'One of the most haunting books I read this year' Carol Shields, Guardian Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award]]> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:31:25 +0300 Arcadia https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56725-arcadia.html https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56725-arcadia.html Arcadia
Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality and chaos that remains in the streets below him, he formulates a plan to leave a mark on the city – one as indelible and disruptive as the mark the city left on him.]]> Thu, 29 Oct 1992 18:31:23 +0200 Signals of Distress https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56735-signals_of_distress.html https://history.library.land/jim-crace/56735-signals_of_distress.html Signals of Distress
An American shipwreck has unforseen, picaresque consequences for an English fishing village]]> Sat, 29 Oct 1994 18:31:25 +0200 (2007) The Pesthouse https://history.library.land/jim-crace/264206-2007_the_pesthouse.html https://history.library.land/jim-crace/264206-2007_the_pesthouse.html (2007) The Pesthouse
Jim Crace is a writer of spectacular originality and a command of language that moves a reader effortlessly into the world of his imagination. In The Pesthouse he imagines an America of the future where a man and a woman trek across a devastated and dangerous landscape, finding strength in each other and an unexpected love.

Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States is now a lawless, scantly populated wasteland. The machines have stopped. The government has collapsed. Farmlands lie fallow and the soil is contaminated by toxins. Across the country, families have packed up their belongings to travel eastward toward the one hope left: passage on a ship to Europe.

Franklin Lopez and his brother, Jackson, are only days away from the ocean when Franklin, nearly crippled by an inflamed knee, is forced to stop. In the woods near his temporary refuge, Franklin comes upon an isolated stone building. Inside he finds Margaret, a woman with a deadly infection and confined to the Pesthouse to sweat out her fever. Tentatively, the two join forces and make their way through the ruins of old America. Confronted by bandits rounding up men for slavery, finding refuge in the Ark, a religious community that makes bizarre demands on those they shelter, Franklin and Margaret find their wariness of each other replaced by deep trust and an intimacy neither one has ever experienced before.

The Pesthouse is Jim Crace’s most compelling novel to date. Rich in its understanding of America’s history and ethos, it is a paean to the human spirit.

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