Being Dead.
by CRACE, Jim
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670856983
- ISBN 13
- 9780670856985
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London: Viking, 1999. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper-covered boards. Fine in very fine dust jacket. Some darkening to pages as is typical of British books. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Synopsis
Being Dead is a novel by the English writer Jim Crace, published in 1999. Its principal characters are married zoologists Joseph and Celice and their daughter Syl. The story tells of how Joseph and Celice, on a day trip to the dunes where they met as students, are murdered by an opportunistic thief. Their bodies lie undiscovered for several days, during the course of which their estranged daughter is made aware of their disappearance and, eventually, discovery.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15945
- Title
- Being Dead.
- Author
- CRACE, Jim
- Format/Binding
- Blue paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670856983
- ISBN 13
- 9780670856985
- Publisher
- Viking,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1999.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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