Awards
Whitbread Prize (nominee)
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Whitbread Prize (nominee)
A haunting new novel about love, death, and the afterlife, from the author of Quarantine.
Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered in the dunes.
Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell--just look at them--that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching her, curved round her shin, the couple seemed to have achieved that peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. Anyone who found them there, so wickedly disfigured, would nevertheless be bound to see that something of their love had survived the death of cells. The corpses were surrendered to the weather and the earth, but they were still a man and wife, quietly resting; flesh on flesh; dead, but not departed yet.
Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered in the dunes.
Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell--just look at them--that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching her, curved round her shin, the couple seemed to have achieved that peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. Anyone who found them there, so wickedly disfigured, would nevertheless be bound to see that something of their love had survived the death of cells. The corpses were surrendered to the weather and the earth, but they were still a man and wife, quietly resting; flesh on flesh; dead, but not departed yet.
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Hardback Editions
March 2001 : Hardback
| Title: Being Dead Author(s):: Jim Crace ISBN: 0312277377 / 9780312277376 (USA edition) Publisher: Picador USA Availability: Amazon CA Amazon Amazon UK |
March 2001 : Library Binding
| Title: Being Dead Author(s):: Jim Crace ISBN: 1417640316 / 9781417640317 (USA edition) Publisher: San Val Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
April 2000 : Hardback
| Title: Being Dead: A Novel Author(s):: Jim Crace ISBN: 0374110131 / 9780374110130 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
September 1999 : Hardback
| Title: Being Dead Author(s):: Jim Crace ISBN: 0670856983 / 9780670856985 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
Paperback Editions
February 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Being Dead Author(s):: Jim Crace ISBN: 0330516795 / 9780330516792 (UK edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA Amazon |
March 2001 : Paperback
| Title: Being Dead: A Novel Author(s):: Jim Crace ISBN: 0312275420 / 9780312275426 (USA edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
2001 : Paperback
| Title: Being Dead Author(s):: Vivian Vande Velde ISBN: 0641512996 / 9780641512995 Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Availability: Amazon |
May 2000 : Paperback
| Title: Being Dead Author(s):: Jim Crace ISBN: 0140239758 / 9780140239751 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon CA Amazon Amazon UK |
May 2000 : Paperback
| Title: Being Dead Author(s):: Jim Crace ISBN: 014029225X / 9780140292251 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon CA Amazon UK Amazon |
September 1999 : Paperback
| Title: Being Dead Author(s):: Jim Crace ISBN: 067088989X / 9780670889891 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Australia Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
Audio Editions
2001 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Being Dead Author(s):: Jim Crace ISBN: 0788794744 (USA edition) Publisher: Recorded Books Availability: Amazon |
2001 : Audio CD
| Title: Being Dead Author(s):: Jim Crace ISBN: 1402515375 / 9781402515378 (USA edition) Publisher: Recorded Books, L.L.C. Availability: Amazon |
Kindle Editions
March 2011 : Kindle edition
| Title: Being Dead Author(s):: Jim Crace ISBN: B004T1P9W0 Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon UK |
April 2000 : Kindle edition
| Title: Being Dead: A Novel Author(s):: Jim Crace ISBN: B003G83U8C Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Availability: Amazon |
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