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Synopsis
Set in the early 19th century this novel tells of the effects on a small kelping village when two ships caught in violent storms are forced to discharge their very different cargoes onto their beaches. The way the uninvited guests affect the village is explored.
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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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- PublisherViking
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 067086059X
- ISBN 13 9780670860593
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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