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Being Dead

Paperback • 2000 • English

Being Dead

By Jim Crace

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About the book

Baritone Bay, mid - afternoon. Celine and Joseph, married, middle - aged, are lying naked on the coast. They had met and first had sex there as students almost 30 years before. Now they hope to rediscover and rekindle passion in the dunes. But this will be a day for death as well as kisses, a day when murder and eternity will fail to put an end to love... "Astonishing... [a] brilliant novel... Jim Crace is a true original... Looked at through his eyes, nothing is as we had thought " Daily Telegr...Show more

Science fiction: space opera
Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss

Book details

ISBN

9780140239751

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Being Dead

Format

Paperback

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