Enjoying local admiration in the restaurants and theaters of his home city, actor Felix Dern struggles with a bizarre fate that causes every woman he sleeps with to become pregnant and anticipates the birth of his latest child with a woman named Mouetta. By the award-winning author of Being Dead. 40,000 first printing.
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"Jim Crace's novels are superbly attuned to the substance of events at the edge of life. The edges of history, the seaweed edge of land, the gray zone of moral behavior, the sill between life and death, all lie within his baliwick." --Barry Lopez
"An extravagantly gifted writer." --John Crowley, "The Washington Post Book World"
"Crace may be the most original and interesting of living British writers." --Richard Eder, "The New York Times "
Jim Crace's novels are superbly attuned to the substance of events at the edge of life. The edges of history, the seaweed edge of land, the gray zone of moral behavior, the sill between life and death, all lie within his baliwick. "Barry Lopez"
An extravagantly gifted writer. "John Crowley, The Washington Post Book World"
Crace may be the most original and interesting of living British writers. "Richard Eder, The New York Times""
"Jim Crace's novels are superbly attuned to the substance of events at the edge of life. The edges of history, the seaweed edge of land, the gray zone of moral behavior, the sill between life and death, all lie within his baliwick." --Barry Lopez
"An extravagantly gifted writer." --John Crowley, The Washington Post Book World
"Crace may be the most original and interesting of living British writers." --Richard Eder, The New York Times
Jim Crace is the author of seven previous novels, including Being Dead (FSG, 2000) which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and, most recently, The Devil's Larder (FSG, 2001). He lives in Birmingham, England.
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