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Article: A Quiet Brit's Loud Talent: Jim Crace's Corpse Comedy.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- February 12, 2001
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Byline: Adam Begley
Being Dead, by Jim Crace. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 196 pages, $21.
The literary novelists from Britain best known in the United States can be classified by decibel level: the noisy (Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson), the somewhat less noisy (A.S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes) and the blessedly quiet (Graham Swift, Kazuo Ishiguro). On this same scale, Jim Crace-who lives in Birmingham, light years from the London scene-has been sub-audible: zero ego clamor, zero media buzz. And yet I'm willing to bet that the cool, crisp sound of his voice will begin to be heard very soon, and that the sound will carry far and ...