from Bidwell, OH
A sumptuous, scintillating stew of sixty four short fictions about appetite, food, and the objects of our desireAll 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 of at t...
Author
Jim Crace
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
176
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN #
8
The prodigiously talented Jim Crace has returned with a new novel that explores the complexities of love and violence witha scenario that juxtaposes humor and humanaspiration.British jazzman Leonard Lessing spent a memorable yet unsuccessful few days in Austin, Texas, trying to seduce a woman he fan...
Author
Jim Crace
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
240
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
ISBN #
6
Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker finalist: a controversial novel of faith and mystery about a group of desert travellers and their encounter with JesusQuarantine is Jim Crace's imaginative and powerful retelling of Christ's fabled 40-day fast in the desert. In Crace's account, ...
Author
Jim Crace
Binding
Paperback
Pages
242
Publisher
Picador
ISBN #
0312199511
EAN Code
9780312199517
ISBN #
5
On the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a remote English villageawaken looking forward toa hard-earned day of rest and feasting at their landowner's table. But the sky is marred by twoconspicuous columns of smoke, replacing pleasurable anticipation with alarm and suspicion.One smoke column ...
Author
Jim Crace
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
224
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
ISBN #
9780385520775
EAN Code
9780385520775
ISBN #
1
In just a few years--first with Continent, then with The Gift of Stones--Jim Crace has proven to be one of the most resourceful and distinctive writers in fiction. Now he delivers Arcadia, a novel about a solitary man of immense wealth turning 80. Victor's right-hand man is planning something specia...
Author
Jim Crace
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
320
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN #
068912158X
EAN Code
9780689121586
ISBN #
10
This novel explores the tribes and communities, conflicts and superstitions, flora and fauna of a wholly spellbinding place: an imaginary seventh continent. In these seven tales Jim Crace travels a strange and wonderful landscape, as fabulous as it is eerily familiar.
Author
Jim Crace
Binding
Paperback
Pages
176
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN #
0141005440
EAN Code
9780141005447
ISBN #
9
November, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American sail ship off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a steamer, bearing one Aymer Smith, th...
Author
Jim Crace
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
Picador
ISBN #
0312424426
EAN Code
9780312424428
ISBN #
7
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 wo...
Author
Jim Crace
Binding
Paperback
Pages
272
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN #
0307278956
EAN Code
9780307278951
ISBN #
4
01 March 1946 • St Albans , Hertfordshire , England
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Position:Actress
University of London • Enfield Grammar School
Academic degree:Graduate And Professional
Area of science:Radio
English novelist
Ascribed status:Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Award:Book award • Prize
James "Jim" Crace (born 1 March 1946) is a contemporary English writer who has won a number of awards. He currently lives in the Moseley area of...
ISBN #
1