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Author(s): Jim Crace
Jim Crace's imaginative first book, seven linked stories, now available in a deluxe paperback edition in Ecco's The Art of the Story Series
"Makes us see our own world more clearly . . . brilliant, provocative and delightful" --the New York Times
Jim Crace's internationally acclaimed first book explores the tribes and communities, conflicts and superstitions, flora and fauna of a wholly spellbinding place: an imaginary seventh continent. In these seven tales Crace travels a strange and wonderful landscape: "Talking Skull" takes the reader to a tiny agricultural village renowned for the sexually-charged, mystical milk of its calves; "Electricity" introduces a remote flatland region where a monumental ceiling fan changes an entire town's attitude toward modernization. From the acacia scrub of the flatlands to a city bazaar jammed with vegetable stalls, tourists, and beggars, Crace's invented world is as fabulous as it is eerily familiar.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers
- : Ecco
- : 0.131542
- : 13 June 2017
- : .36 Inches X 5.312 Inches X 8 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jim Crace
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823/.914
- : 160