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Article: Jim Crace. The Pesthouse.(Book review)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Jim Crace. The Pesthouse. New York. Nan A. Talese / Doubleday. 2007. 255 pages. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-385-52075-1
A cursory glance at the titles of some of Jim Crace's novels--Quarantine, Being Dead, The Pesthouse--might give the impression that this award-winning contemporary British author, like his nineteenth-century countryman Thomas Carlyle, is haunted by the thought of world destruction. That is, however, not the case. Even his latest book, The Pesthouse, bears testimony to that. In this imaginary tale of a dystopian America where civilization has collapsed, Crace suggests, like the Spanish philosopher Unamuno, that love can redeem the human race.
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Article: Travel: Sunday Travel: Case history Jim Crace
The Sunday Telegraph London;
May 14, 2000 ;
654 words
... ... in the Isles of Scilly, flying by helicopter from the nation's sweetest airfield at Penzance to the world's sweetest archipelago. Jim Crace's novel, `Being Dead' was published in paperback last week (Penguin, pounds 6.99).
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