Article: Books: Crace invites us to experience the joy of Six; Six by Jim Crace (Viking, pounds 16.99).(Features)

Byline: Peter Bacon

A middle-aged man looking back on his love-life -it's a fertile subject for the novel. And the subject of this novel is a particularly fertile, middle-aged man.

Felix Dern, or Lix as he is known, develops a successful career as an actor and singer, a household name in the city and country where he lives.

More specifically, he is a man blessed, or should that be cursed, with virility. ...

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