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Jim Crace [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Tew Philip Visualizza persona
Titolo: Jim Crace [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina: 823.914
Soggetto topico: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Soggetto non controllato: Being Dead
Continent
Jim Crace
Pesthouse
acclaim
contexts
narrative strategies
novelist
themes
worldwide bestseller
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
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ISBN: 1-78170-123-7
1-84779-195-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910791951203321
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Serie: Contemporary British Novelists