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First American Edition. ADVANCE READING COPY. Fine in black printed wrappers enclosed in a black card slipcase. A Booker Prize finalist & Whitbread novel of the year. Seller Inventory # 306802
Bibliographic Details
Title: QUARANTINE.
Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX., NY
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
Yet Crace is hardly the jeering materialist we might expect. As Jesus takes to his cliff-top cave, the author renders his religious transports without a hint of irony, and with a linguistic elegance that can hardly be called disrespectful: "The prayers were in command of him. He shouted out across the valley, happy with the noise he made. The common words lost hold of sound. The consonants collapsed. He called on god to join him in the cave with all the noises that his lips could make. He called with all the voices in his throat." And while most of the temptations of Christ are visited upon him by humans--by the motley crew of his cave-dwelling neighbors--he resists them with what we can only call superhuman will. Quarantine does, of course, operate on a fairly realistic plane. Jesus dies of starvation long before his 40-day fast is complete, and his fellow retreatants, who take center stage throughout much of the novel, are much too confused and brutal ever to figure in any Sunday school pageant. Still, Crace leaves at least the possibility of resurrection intact at the end, which should ensure that his brilliant book will rattle both believers and non-believers alike.
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