Being Dead

by Jim Crace

In Crace's typically strange and lyrical novel, the lives of a middle-aged married couple, murdered while making love al fresco, are examined in a narrative that moves backward in time, while simultaneously the reaction of their only daughter is explored. A New York Times "Editors' Choice" for one of the best books of 2000.

Available editions of Being Dead

	9780312275426, Paperback, Picador USA, 2001 $1.00 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780312275426

	9780312277376, Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001 None currently available

	9780374110130, Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000 $1.00 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9780374110130

Publisher Notes

The discovery of a devoted couple found murdered in the dunes of Baritone Bay forms the centerpiece of this haunting novel of love and afterlife. By the author of Quarantine.

Media Reviews

"The naked daring of Crace's subject matter seems to have produced prose more majestic and assured than in any of his previous novels....This story's terse, drumming, iambic utterances often come close to verse, and its wit matches the best work of any of Crace's contemporaries....These lives at first appear too unremarkable to claim our attention, and the physical facts of their end too repulsive to allow us to care, yet we are intensely involved in the drama. We understand this precisely because our rising interest in Joseph and Celice's lives keeps pace with the increasingly ghastly details of bodily death. Our caring, as Crace makes clear, is a tribute to life itself."

First Line

For old times' sake, the doctors of zoology had driven out of town that Tuesday afternoon to make a final visit to the singing salt dunes at Baritone Bay. And to lay a ghost. They never made it back alive. They almost never made it back at all.

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