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: 0-312-27737-7 / 978-0-312-27737-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Picador USA Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2001 : Library Binding
| Title: Being Dead Author(s): Jim Crace ISBN: 1-4176-4031-6 / 978-1-4176-4031-7 (USA edition) Publisher: San Val Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2000 : Hardback
| Title: Being Dead Author(s): Jim Crace ISBN: 0-374-11013-1 / 978-0-374-11013-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 1999 : Hardback
| Title: Being Dead Author(s): Jim Crace ISBN: 0-670-85698-3 / 978-0-670-85698-5 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA WorldCat More details... |
1970 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
April 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Being Dead Author(s): Jim Crace ISBN: 0-330-51679-5 / 978-0-330-51679-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2001 : Paperback
| Title: Being Dead: A Novel Author(s): Jim Crace ISBN: 0-312-27542-0 / 978-0-312-27542-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2001 : Paperback
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May 2000 : Paperback
| Title: Being Dead Author(s): Jim Crace ISBN: 0-14-023975-8 / 978-0-14-023975-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 2000 : Paperback
| Title: Being Dead Author(s): Jim Crace ISBN: 0-14-029225-X / 978-0-14-029225-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 1999 : Paperback
| Title: Being Dead Author(s): Jim Crace ISBN: 0-670-88989-X / 978-0-670-88989-1 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Australia Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA WorldCat More details... |
Audio Editions
2001 : Audio Cassette
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2001 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Being Dead Author(s): Jim Crace ISBN: 0-7887-9474-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Recorded Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
2001 : Audio CD
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Other Editions
March 2011 : Kindle edition
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April 2010 : Kindle edition
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September 2001 : Turtleback
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August 2001 : Unbound
| Title: Being Dead Author(s): Jim Crace ISBN: 0-374-70179-2 / 978-0-374-70179-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
August 2001 : Unbound
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August 2001 : Unbound
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2001 : Unknown
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2001 : Unknown
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2000 : Unknown
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January 1999 : Unknown
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