All That Follows - Hardcover

Crace, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330445642 ISBN 13: 9780330445641

Publisher: Picador, 2010

Synopsis

Jim Crace blazes into new territory with a near-future tale of politics and love

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Review

`All That Follows . . . is the classic liberal dilemma of our own time and place and so Crace keeps temporal dislocation to a minimum. The forward projection is just far enough ahead - 2024 - to allow him to play a little with technological advances and make mild satirical points . . . Is Leonard Lessing a hero of our time? Most likely.'
--Daily Telegraph

`Crace's satirical swipes at police states and the impotence of the individual are pleasingly playful.' --Metro

`This is an excellent novel . . . a self-conscious adventure in form, a mischievous exercise in following the rules.' --The Times

`Blending comedy with a touch of pathos, this is no edge-of-the-seat nail-biter, but a meandering and unexpectedly joyful novel.' --Daily Mail

'It's beautifully done in that gorgeous jingle-jangle prose of Crace's, which is utterly sublime - sometimes I even forget the sense of what I'm reading; it's all just so perfect and I get lost. Set in a near-future Britain, there are all sorts of sly, funny and alarming digs at current assaults on civil liberties and various bits of health fascism. '
--Bookbag

`All That Follows is a story about memory, identity, personal responsibility, love and courage that shows all the depth and craft for which Crace is famed.' --Waterstones Books Quarterly

`We are hooked on a tale of stale marriage, of unfulfilled hopes, and of how the past never really leaves us. Crace, in the novel's most brilliant passages, picks through the doubts and disaffections, the self-delusions and self-regard of a flawed but talented minor musician. Lennie ripples with inner life. A bravura revisiting of one of Lennie's concerts - on the night when Francine first fell for him - is a staggering slice of prose that contrasts the heights of love and desire with the flatlands of marital disarray.' --Scotsman

`All That Follows is grimly affecting but also tender in its empathies...A blindingly good read in parts, both for its mesmeric storytelling and the matchless quality of its prose. Crace's is a unique voice still. And we are lucky to have it.' --Financial Times

'Effective character drawing.'
--Observer

`The most alive-and-kicking prose in All That Follows comes when the author explores Lennie's creative world . . . [Crace] writes with real feel and imagination about this music . . . Lennie's ponderings are among the best things in the book.' --Sunday Times

About the Author

Jim Crace has enjoyed great success in both Britain and United States and his work is widely translated. He is the prize-winning author of nine previous books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award). He lives in Birmingham.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0330445642
• ISBN 13: 9780330445641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288