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41 produkter
Pesthouse
Av Jim Crace
E-bok, 2008
158 kr
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A devastated America exists in an imagined future. Its technologies are forgotten, its communities have splintered and its refugees, reversing the course of history, travel eastwards in search of safety and a new start. Among them are Franklin and Margaret, young, bereft, forced together by …
Eden
Av Jim Crace
Häftad, 2023
123 kr
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‘No one is better . . . Eden sees Crace at the top of his game’ - TelegraphTrouble has come to the garden. Its inhabitants live an eternal and unblemished life, tending to the bountiful fields, orchards and lakes, and serving their angelic masters. But now one of the gardeners has escaped, …
Continent
Stories
Av Jim Crace
E-bok, 2017
85 kr
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In this award-winning collection, the world is "skewed just enough . . . to make us see our own world more clearly. . . . brilliant, provocative and delightful." (TheNew York Times Book Review).Jim Crace''s internationally acclaimed first book explores the tribes and communities, conflicts and …
Devil's Larder
Av Jim Crace
Häftad, 2002
179 kr
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THE DEVIL'S LARDER is a cumulative novel in sixty-four parts, all on the subject of food. Crace's readers might learn that little is to be trusted about food from these hilarious, delightful and subversive ingredients, but they will encounter a startling and touching patchwork portrait of a …
Harvest
Av Jim Crace
Häftad, 2014
185 kr
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The inspiration behind the Major Motion Picture starring Caleb Landry Jones'Extraordinary' - The Guardian'Inimitably excellent' - Boyd Tonkin, IndependentAs late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a …
Gift of Stones
Av Jim Crace
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
123 kr
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‘The intense story of the pre-historical moment when stone yielded to bronze . . . Crace is a virtuoso’ Frank Kermode, New York Times A coastal community live prosperously crafting fine stone tools. But their proud insularity is breached by raiders, and in the violence a boy loses his arm. Useless …
Arcadia
Av Jim Crace
Häftad, 2008
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
137 kr
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Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality …
Signals of Distress
Av Jim Crace
Häftad, 2008
190 kr
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Winter 1836, and the Belle of Wilmington discharges its doomed crew on Wherrytown. Little daunted, the Captain and his sailors flirt, drink and brawl their way through the village, marooned along with Aymer Smith, a virgin and a blunderer in search of a wife. As vivid and alive as characters by …
Arcadia
Av Jim Crace
E-bok, 2008
189 kr
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Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality …
Continent
Av Jim Crace
E-bok, 2008
155 kr
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‘Hard and actual in observation, clearly and richly imagined, remarkably original’ GuardianA novel in seven stories, Continent is an exploration of the cultures, communities and natural life of an entirely imaginary realm. Built on rich seams of myth and metaphor, this new, seventh continent is …
Signals of Distress
Av Jim Crace
E-bok, 2008
143 kr
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November 1836, and Aylmer Smith is making the voyage from his London home to coastal Wherrytown to deliver bad news. Once there he becomes embroiled with the American crew of the Belle, torn from their ship by a fierce storm and left stranded to wreak havoc in the village.A Dickensian cast of …
Six
Av Jim Crace
E-bok, 2008
158 kr
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‘A tender, erotic comedy set in a fictitious European city so intricately imagined that you itch to book a weekend break there’ IndependentFelix Dern is a celebrated actor, revered for his talent and his looks. Unbeknownst to those he seduces, he is exceptional in other ways, too. ‘Every woman he …
Devil's Larder
Av Jim Crace
E-bok, 2008
158 kr
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One night when there are guests and all the wine has gone, they put the can into the candlelight amongst the debris of their meal and play the guessing game. An aphrodisiac. perhaps; “Let’s try . .” ’Bursting with delightfully subversive ingredients and mischievous behaviour, The Devil’s Larder is …
Gift of Stones
Av Jim Crace
E-bok, 2008
176 kr
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‘The intense story of the pre-historical moment when stone yielded to bronze . . . Crace is a virtuoso’ Frank Kermode, New York Times A coastal community live prosperously crafting fine stone tools. But their proud insularity is breached by raiders, and in the violence a boy loses his arm. Useless …
All That Follows
Av Jim Crace
E-bok, 2011
141 kr
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Leonard Lessing once cast a spell on stage, hypnotizing crowds with his improvised jazz, easy in his music, at home in the moment. Now, home is somewhere he never leaves. His sax is silent, his marriage faltering, his stepdaughter vanished, and his life shrinking – until one afternoon the TV brings …
Being Dead
Av Jim Crace
E-bok, 2011
176 kr
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD.A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, at the spot where, almost thirty years before, they had first had sex as students. Nostalgia has sent Celice and Joseph back to their singing stretch of coast, but in the seeming calm of the afternoon …
Quarantine
Av Jim Crace
Häftad, 2024
123 kr
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Winner of the Whitbread Novel AwardShortlisted for the Booker Prize‘Dazzling, gritty brilliance’ – Sunday Times‘Completely captivating’ – Literary ReviewJim Crace's provocative retelling of Jesus' forty day fast in the desert is a classic that tampers with tradition. Moving and fascinating in equal …
Harvest
Av Jim Crace
Häftad, 2026
137 kr
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and now a film adaptation starring Caleb Landry Jones. Jim Crace creates a haunting world in Harvest.‘Extraordinary’ – The Guardian‘Inimitably excellent’ – Boyd Tonkin, The IndependentAs late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village …
Midnight Bell
Av Jim Crace
Inbunden, 2027
215 kr
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‘Quite simply, one of the great writers of our time' - Colum McCannIt is 1842. On the morning of her 10th birthday, Lina sets out from home to collect her family's weekly bread ration ahead of the mid-morning curfew.Lina's city is under siege - occupied by a retreating army who have enclosed …
