Being Dead

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 210, [6 (blank)]. Electric blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; black endpapers. Dust jacket photograph by Richard Dunkley.

Signed by Crace to title page and from the author's own library. Faint toning to textblock, else Fine.

Author's sixth book. Winner of the 2000 National Book Critics' Circle Award for Fiction, as well as a 1999 Whitbread Prize nominee for Best Novel. An Editor's Choice of the Year pick by the New York Times. A chronicle, in reverse-running time, of the bludgeoning to death and physical decomposition of a couple on a remote beach. A film version directed by John Meyers and starring Linus Roache, Kathryn Erbe, Gavin Peretti and Elizabeth Marvel, was in post-production as of December 2019.

"The English writer Jim Crace is a literary meteor. On the evidence of Being Dead, Crace is an extravagantly gifted writer unlike anyone else I can think of, and his new book is a rare interleaving of writerly panache and common human feeling." –Washington Post