1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820881403321

Autore

Tew Philip

Titolo

Jim Crace [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-78170-123-7

1-84779-195-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Contemporary British Novelists

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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