Jim Crace - Being Dead

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...

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 it’s quite easy to forget that his lush prose is dedicated to describing the rapidly decaying corpses of two middle-aged...

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...