| Description |
1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Series |
Contemporary British Novelists |
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Contemporary British novelists.
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| Contents |
9780719069123; 9780719069123; Copyright; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1 Exploring Craceland; 2 Communities and change: Continent (1986) and The Gift of Stones (1988); 3 Parables of distress: Arcadia (1992)and Signals of Distress (1994); 4 Death, belief and nature:Quarantine (1997) and Being Dead (1999); 5 Excess, passion and the uncanny:The Devil's Larder (2001) and Six [Genesis] (2003); Addendum: The Pesthouse (2007); Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Jim Crace is one of the most imaginative of contemporary novelists. The author of nine novels, he has received great public and intellectual acclaim across the UK, Europe, Australia and the United States. He was awarded the National Book Critics? Circle Fiction prize (USA) for Being Dead in 2000. Philip Tew's study is the first extended critical examination of Crace's oeuvre and is based on extensive interviews with the novelist, including discussions of his work from his first worldwide bestseller Continent (1986) up to The Pesthouse (2007). Designed especially both for undergraduates of contem |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
Crace, Jim -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Crace, Jim fast |
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Crace, Jim. swd |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781847791955 |
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1847791956 |
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9781781701232 |
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1781701237 |
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