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Arcadia by Jim Crace
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality and ch ...Show more
Being Dead by Jim Crace
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
Lying in the sand dunes of Baritone Bay are the bodies of a middle-aged couple. Celice and Joseph, in their mid-50s and married for more than 30 years, are returning to the seacoast where they met as students. Instead, they are battered to death by a thief with a chunk of granite. Their corpses lie undi ...Show more
Eden by Jim Crace
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set in a walled garden, whose inhabitants live an eternal and unblemished life, eden opens with a summons. The gardeners of eden are called by their masters, the angels, to see a dead body. It is that of a bird, a creature who has strayed beyond the garden walls. Outside, where there is poverty and sick ...Show more
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
This used to be America, this river crossing in the ten-month stretch of land, this sea-to-sea. It used to be the safest place on earth. America as we know it has fragmented. Its machines have stopped, its communities have splintered, its history is virtually forgotten, and the great migration has start ...Show more
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