03073nam 22006973u 450 991079195120332120230828231850.01-78170-123-71-84779-195-610.7765/9781847791955(CKB)2560000000085728(EBL)1069512(OCoLC)818847205(SSID)ssj0000712796(PQKBManifestationID)12259067(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712796(PQKBWorkID)10650844(PQKB)10294973(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085746(MiAaPQ)EBC1069512(DE-B1597)660594(DE-B1597)9781847791955(EXLCZ)99256000000008572820130418d2006|||| u|| |engur|||||||||||txtccrJim Crace[electronic resource]Manchester Manchester University Press20061 online resource (241 p.)Contemporary British NovelistsDescription based upon print version of record.1-84779-610-9 0-7190-6912-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexJim 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 contemContemporary British NovelistsLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshbisacshBeing Dead.Continent.Jim Crace.Pesthouse.acclaim.contexts.narrative strategies.novelist.themes.worldwide bestseller.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.823.914Tew Philip572737AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910791951203321Jim Crace3694665UNINA