Jim Crace / Philip Tew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tew, Philip.

Series:

Contemporary British novelists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crace, Jim--Criticism and interpretation.

Crace, Jim.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xviii, 220 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2006.

Summary:

Jim Crace is one of the most imaginative of contemporary novelists. The author of nine novels, he has received great public and intellectual acclaim across the UK, Europe, Australia and the United States. He was awarded the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction prize (USA) for Being Dead in 2000. Philip Tew's study is the first extended critical examination of Crace's oeuvre and is based on extensive interviews with the novelist, including discussions of his work from his first worldwide bestseller Continent (1986) up to The Pesthouse (2007). Designed especially both for undergraduates of contemporary fiction, and for those who simply enjoy reading the author, Jim Crace is an excellent addition to the Contemporary British Novelists series. Tew's treatment of themes, contexts and narrative strategies illuminates the literary and critical contexts within which Crace operates, situating him as one of the most adventurous and challenging of Britain's twenty-first century authors.

Contents:

Exploring Craceland

Communities and change: Continent (1986) and The gift of stones (1988)

Parables of distress: Arcadia (1992) and Signals of distress (1994)

Death, belief and nature: Quarantine (1997) and Being dead (1999)

Excess, passion and the uncanny: The devil's larder (2001) and Six [Genesis] (2003)

Addendum: The pesthouse (2007).

ISBN:

0719069122

9780719069123

0719069130

9780719069130

OCLC:

70672034