Being Dead - Brossura

Crace, Jim

3,72

5.148 valutazioni di Goodreads

Brossura

ISBN 10: 144725032X ISBN 13: 9781447250326

Casa editrice: Pan Macmillan, 2013

Vedi tutte le copie di questo ISBN:

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 they meet a brutal and unexpected fate - one which will still their bodies but not their love, and certainly not their story. 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 they meet a brutal and unexpected fate - one which will still their bodies but not their love, and certainly not their story.

Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Recensione:

‘An extraordinarily moving love story’ Observer

‘A work of near-genius’ Literary Review

‘A swirling symphonic celebration of the glory of the natural world’ The Times

‘Intensely imagined and deeply felt’ Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times

‘One of the most haunting books I read this year’ Carol Shields, Guardian

‘Magnificent’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Astonishing’ Daily Telegraph

‘One of the most haunting books I read this year’ Carol Shields, Guardian

‘A classic’ Independent on Sunday

‘A work of near-genius’ Literary Review

Descrizione del libro:

An unflinching meditation on love and death from Booker shortlisted author Jim Crace

Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.