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Jim Crace - Being Dead Books

Jim Crace - Being Dead

Overall Rating: 5/5 stars   3 reviews  | Write a review
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Joseph and Celice sitting in a dune K-I-S-S-I-N-G

by   artemis8 ,  Oct 22, 2002
Pros: great writing style, interesting topic
Cons: some grotesque imagery of death
The Bottom Line: Jim Crace creates a scenario and brings you into the lives (and deaths) and everyone involved. He does an amazing job at it.
Review: This fictional story is about the death of Joseph and Celice, a couple in their 50s, in a sand dune at Baritone Bay. It talks about a lot of topics that all relate to the death of this couple. The first chapter starts with the couple being dead and all...
Author's Rating: 5/5 stars  
 

Decay and Creation on Baritone Bay

by   kchowell , top reviewer in Books at Epinions.com ,  May 9, 2000
Pros: An elegant exploration of an unusual subject.
Cons: An honest look at the biology of death, which may make some uncomfortable.
Review: In his recently published novel, Being Dead, Jim Crace brings his subjects to life so lyrically and beautifully that itÂ’s quite easy to forget that his lush prose is dedicated to describing the rapidly decaying corpses of two middle-aged...
Author's Rating: 5/5 stars  
 

$23 bucks well spent !

by   cr8zy_me ,  Sep 7, 2000
Pros: excellent story, worth the money, better than a movie
Cons: none that i have seen
Review:
In his latest novel,

Crace (author of Quarantine, 1998) archly explores life and death and the effect of chance upon the two. From the very beginning we learn that Celice and Joseph, two married, middle-aged zoologists, are...
Author's Rating: 5/5 stars  
 

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The author ponders the redemptive power of secular love in this novel. Their bodies had expired, but anyone looking at them could see that Joseph and ...
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Paperback, Being Dead

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Pages: 208, Edition: 1st, Paperback, Picador
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