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Jim Crace. Genesis.(Book Review)
Jim Crace. Genesis. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003.246 pp. $23.00.
For the last two decades Jim Crace's rich corpus has explored how traditional systems of meaning evolve during times of large-scale socioeconomic change. What's especially interesting about Crace's treatment of meaning is his adherence to a strictly naturalist and materialist worldview. His previous full-length novel, Being Dead (2000), was an extended meditation on love and death. His new novel, Genesis, can be read as a complementary meditation on love and paternity. The narrative follows the romances of an actor named Felix Dern (a.k.a. Lix), who conceives a child with every woman he has ever been physical with: "every kiss produced a child.... Fertile Lix had never slept with anyone without--eventually--a pregnancy. There was always an aftermath for him." As is typical in Crace's work, the setting for this story is a fictional, vaguely European city. Its volatile economy and its apparently successful mass-entertainment industry ...
- Jim Crace: moral activist, Conservative romantic.
- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly Field, Michele October 2, 1995 700+ words
JIM CRACE IN PRINT ARCADIA Collier Books, paperback, 1993 THE GIFT OF STONES Collier Books, paperback, 1990 ONE WONDERS how a writer as successful as Jim Crace can remain so boy-next-doorish. He has almost made an art of talking...
- An uncertain Jesus.(commentary on Jim Crace's 'Quarantine')
- Magazine article from: World and I Sullivan, Jim August 1, 1998 700+ words
...capturing the desert setting and its ancient tribal folk, Jim Crace offers an imaginative account of Christ's forty-day sojourn...An unintended miracle In many particulars, the Jesus of Jim Crace's Quarantine is more reminiscent of the Joseph of Genesis...
- `The Devil's Larder,' by Jim Crace; Farrar Straus & Giroux.(South Florida...
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Mabe, Chauncey October 17, 2001 700+ words
...and the pleasures of passion. If any author could be expected to resist the obvious, not to mention the whimsical, it is Jim Crace, the tough-minded, award-winning British author of novels such as "Quarantine," an all but hostile reimagining of...
- Jim Crace. The Pesthouse.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Noor, Ronny March 1, 2008 700+ words
Jim Crace. The Pesthouse. New York. Nan A...cursory glance at the titles of some of Jim Crace's novels--Quarantine, Being Dead...symbol for regeneration and rebirth. Jim Crace deftly weaves these meanings into his...
- Jim Crace: moral atheist.
- Magazine article from: World and I Munsell, Clark August 1, 1998 700+ words
Jim Crace, an ex-journalist, was born fifty-three years ago to a working-class family in England. Crace's father a self-educated...
- `The Devil's Larder,' by Jim Crace; Farrar Straus & Giroux (165 pages, $20).
- News wire article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) October 12, 2001 700+ words
...and the pleasures of passion. If any author could be expected to resist the obvious, not to mention the whimsical, it is Jim Crace, the tough-minded, award-winning British author of novels such as "Quarantine," an all but hostile reimagining of...
- Jim Crace. The Devil's Larder.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Maliszewski, Paul March 22, 2002 700+ words
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. 165 pp. $20.00. The Devil's Larder is a collection of sixty-four very short stories--the longest several pages, the shortest just two words--having to do with cooking and eating all sorts of food, from extravagant dishes to ordinary cans. Crace, the author of six
- Questions linger on LIX-LIA merger.
- Magazine article from: Long Island Business News Schachter, Ken December 13, 2002 700+ words
...could be finalized as early as mid-January. But the LIX hoard had yet to discuss the merger question. Plans called for LIX members who paid dues four 2003 to get a refund and for all LIX members to gain free access to the LIA's FasTrak unit...
- New LIX chief sees value in listening to members.(Long Island...
- Magazine article from: Long Island Business News Schachter, Ken June 7, 2002 700+ words
GARDEN CITY -- Newly minted LIX President Michael Martino says he will keep...advice since I started my career." The LIX will share office space with the Morey Organization...and John Caracciolo, are co-chairs of LIX. Like Martino, Morey and Caracciolo were...
- LIX planning field trip to Albany.
- Magazine article from: Long Island Business News Schachter, Ken November 29, 2002 700+ words
...and shakers in Albany early next year. LIX President Michael Martino said he expects...Still, Martino said it was unclear whether LIX would have a specific legislative agenda...purpose, he said, would be to "bring the LIX up to the state and make an en masse introduction...
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