Being Dead, unusually, begins with its main characters lying dead and rotting on a beach. Not, you might think, a promising start. You would be wrong.
Equally a study of intimacy as a meditation on the physical progress of death, we are given a strange portrait of a couples' affection as it matures over thirty years, and how it seems to continue into death: ‘quietly resting; flesh on flesh; dead, but not departed yet’.
Morbid? Certainly, but strangely touching with it.
Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. Celice and Joseph, married, middle-aged, are lying naked on the coast. They had met and first had sex there as students almost thirty years before. Now they hope to rediscover and rekindle passion in the dunes.
But this will be a day for death as well as kisses, a day when murder and eternity will fail to put an end to love ...
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Being Dead, unusually, begins with its main characters lying dead and rotting on a beach. Not, you might think, a promising start. You would be wrong.
Equally a study of intimacy as a meditation on the physical progress of death, we are given a strange portrait of a couples' affection as it matures over thirty years, and how it seems to continue into death: ‘quietly resting; flesh on flesh; dead, but not departed yet’.
Morbid? Certainly, but strangely touching with it.
Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. Celice and Joseph, married, middle-aged, are lying naked on the coast. They had met and first had sex there as students almost thirty years before. Now they hope to rediscover and rekindle passion in the dunes.
But this will be a day for death as well as kisses, a day when murder and eternity will fail to put an end to love ...
Imprint | Penguin Books |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | November 2001 |
Availability | Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available. |
Authors | Jim Crace |
Dimensions | 198 x 128 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - B-format |
Pages | 224 |
Edition | New edition |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-14-023975-1 |
Barcode | 9780140239751 |
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LSN | 0-14-023975-8 |