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An internationally acclaimed author tells the story of an American emigration ship grounded off the coast of England in the 1830s and the isolated English village that tries to cope with the onset of the raucous passengers.
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""Signals of Distress" is an engrossing book...Crace is a genius at making round and really human characters, and his characters make his novel superb."--"Newsday"
"One of the brightest lights in contemporary British fiction. With beguiling narrative ease and prose lyric enough to invest the most ordinary events with mystery, Mr. Crace...lays bare the commonplace events-always unrecorded-that crystallize later as 'history.'"-- Charles Johnson, "The New York Times Book Review"
"Crace weaves a progressive magic into this mythic plot with masterful detail, luminous prose and haunting characterization."--"The Boston Globe"
"Signals of Distress" is an engrossing book...Crace is a genius at making round and really human characters, and his characters make his novel superb. "Newsday"
One of the brightest lights in contemporary British fiction. With beguiling narrative ease and prose lyric enough to invest the most ordinary events with mystery, Mr. Crace...lays bare the commonplace events-always unrecorded-that crystallize later as 'history.' "Charles Johnson, The New York Times Book Review"
Crace weaves a progressive magic into this mythic plot with masterful detail, luminous prose and haunting characterization. "The Boston Globe""
"Signals of Distress is an engrossing book...Crace is a genius at making round and really human characters, and his characters make his novel superb." --Newsday
"One of the brightest lights in contemporary British fiction. With beguiling narrative ease and prose lyric enough to invest the most ordinary events with mystery, Mr. Crace...lays bare the commonplace events-always unrecorded-that crystallize later as 'history.'" --Charles Johnson, The New York Times Book Review
"Crace weaves a progressive magic into this mythic plot with masterful detail, luminous prose and haunting characterization." --The Boston Globe
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An American shipwreck has unforseen, picaresque consequences for an English fishing village
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0374263795
- ISBN 13 9780374263799
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages275
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