A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JIM CRACE
is the author of nine previous novels, including, most recently,
The Pesthouse. Being Dead
was short-listed for the 1999 Whitbread Fiction Prize and won the U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2000. In 1997,
Quarantine
was named the Whitbread Novel of the Year and was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Jim Crace has also received the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Guardian Fiction Prize. He lives in Birmingham, England.
Copyright © 2010 Jim Crace
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