Signals of Distress
Crace, Jim
Sold by Mike Murray - Bookseller LLC, East Windsor, NJ, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by Mike Murray - Bookseller LLC, East Windsor, NJ, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since January 22, 1998
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketThis copy has been SIGNED by the author! The highly acclaimed author's fourth novel - tells the story of an American emigration vessel grounded off the coast of England in the 1830's. His latest novel - Quarantine, was short-listed for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize.
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"Signals of Distress is an engrossing book...Crace is a genius at making round and really human characters, and his characters make his novel superb."--Newsday
November, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American sail ship off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a steamer, bearing one Aymer Smith, the foolish well-intentioned prig who will deprive the town of its livelihood, free the African slave, and set into motion a whole series of unforeseeable, tragicomic events. One of the most seductive and surprising novelist at work today, once again creates a richly strange and believable world, uncannily familiar to our own.
"One of the brightest lights in contemporary British fiction. With beguiling narrative ease and prose lyric enough to invest the most ordinary events with mystery, Mr. Crace...lays bare the commonplace events-always unrecorded-that crystallize later as 'history.'"-- Charles Johnson, The New York Times Book Review
"Crace weaves a progressive magic into this mythic plot with masterful detail, luminous prose and haunting characterization."--The Boston Globe
JIM CRACE is the author of seven other novels, including Being Dead, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and, most recently, Genesis. He lives in Birmingham, England.
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