Quarantine by Jim Crace - ISBN: 9781035038633
Paperback
Redemption, temptation, and survival clash in a harsh, unforgiving desert.

Quarantine

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    27 August 2024

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Summary

Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

“Dazzling, gritty brilliance” - Sunday Times “Completely captivating” - Literary Review

Jim Crace’s provocative retelling of Jesus’ forty-day fast in the desert is a classic that tampers with tradition. Moving and fascinating in equal measure, Quarantine is a stunningly realized novel from one of the great writers of our time.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781035038633
ISBN-10:1035038633
Author:Jim Crace
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:27 August 2024
Weight:176g
Dimensions:18mm x 130mm x 196mm
Series:Picador Collection
Audience Age:18
A-Format
Quarantine by Jim Crace - ISBN: 9781035038633
130 × 196 mm
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C-Format
A4
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What They're Saying

Critics Review

One of the finest novels I’ve read in years * The Times *
Completely captivating * Literary Review *
Absolutely compelling * Observer *
Dazzling, gritty brilliance. This is a novel of scorching distinction’ * Sunday Times *
Stunning. A writer of hallucinatory skill * John Updike *

About The Author

Jim Crace

Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of a dozen books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award), Harvest (shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and winner of the International Dublin Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and The Melody. He lives in Worcestershire.

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