Being Dead (Paperback, New edition)


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 ...

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Imprint

Penguin Books

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

November 2001

Availability

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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



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