2 novels by Jim Crace
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Overview: Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of ten previous books, including ‘Continent’ (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), ‘Quarantine’ (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and ‘Being Dead’ (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award). He lives in Birmingham.
Genre: Fiction, Literature
Signals of Distress
Winter 1836, and the Belle of Wilmington discharges its doomed crew on Wherrytown. Little daunted, the Captain and his sailors flirt, drink and brawl their way through the village, marooned along with Aymer Smith, a virgin and a blunderer in search of a wife. As vivid and alive as characters by Dickens, these men play out their dreams against a haunting, monumental landscape, bringing the New World back to the Old, with fresh discoveries, fresh hazards, fresh hopes. ‘The passions and mores of the 1830s are flawlessly delineated in this masterly novel, imbued with the tang and power of the sea’ Independent
The Gift of Stones
At the twilight of the stone age, an isolated village lives in relative prosperity. A young man, a one-armed dreamer unable to work the stone, elects himself the village storyteller, and hunts restlessly, far and wide, for inspiration. But the information he finds and the people he meets warn of a fissure in their world: the advent of a new age and the coming of a metal that will change their community’s life irrevocably. ‘A tour de force, finely and firmly written. Crace is a virtuoso’ Frank Kermode ‘His work is among the most original in comtemporary fiction’ The Times
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