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Penzler Pick, June 2000: It begins with a murder. Celice and Joseph, in their mid-50s and married for more than 30 years, are returning to the seacoast where they met as students. They are reliving their first amorous encounter in the sand dunes when they are set upon by the murderer who beats them to death with a rock and steals their watches, their jewelry, and even their meager lunch. From that moment forward, this remarkably written book by Jim Crace becomes less about murder and more about death. Alternating chapters move back in time from the murder in hourly and two-hourly increments. As the narrative moves backward, we see Celice and Joseph make the small decisions about their day that will lead them inexorably towards their own deaths. Eventually we learn about their first meeting, and that this is not the first time tragedy has struck them in this idyllic setting.
In other chapters the narrative moves forward. Celice and Joseph are on vacation and nobody misses them until they do not return. Thus, it is six days before their bodies are found. Crace describes in minute detail their gradual return to the land with the help of crabs, birds, and the numerous insects that attack the body and gently and not so gently prepare it for the dust-to-dust phase of death. Celice and Joseph would have been delighted with the description: she was a zoologist and he was an oceanographer, and they spent their lives with their eyes to the microscope, observing the phenomena of life and death. Some readers might find this gruesome, but the facts of death are told in such glorious prose that these descriptions in no way detract from the enjoyment of the book.
After her parents do not return home, their daughter, Syl, must search the morgues and follow up John and Jane Doe reports until she is finally asked to make an identification of the remains in the dunes. We then discover that the reader has had a more intimate relationship with them in death than Syl ever had with them in life. This small gem of a book, not really a mystery in the usual sense, will stay with you long after you finish. --Otto Penzler -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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In his latest novel, Crace (author of Quarantine, 1998) archly explores life and death and the effect of chance upon the two. From the very beginning we learn that Celice and Joseph, two married, middle-aged zoologists, are murder victims. From there the book moves backward and forward in time, changing points of view along the way, to show why they came to be where they were when they were murdered and what happened after their deaths. Thus, we are not only privy to Celice's and Joseph's thoughts and feelings but to those of their daughter, whose rebellious period is suddenly cut short, and even the murderer. However, the narrative's most arresting scenes, occurring during the days between the murders and the discovery of the dead couple, involve a macabre, though detached, description (worthy of the zoologists themselves) of how their bodies are returned to the ecosystem of the dunes, where they had briefly made love before being assaulted. Yet nothing is strained, for Crace pulls off a remarkable fusion of chaos theory and natural order in telling this story. Frank Caso
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This amazing book is a reading experience that will long stay with you. Although I've been known to put down murder mysteries that are too graphic, the details of the decomposition of these two zoologists (how perfect) didn't bother me because it was written so beautifully; e.g. "But the rain, the wind, the shooting stars, the maggots and the shame had not succeeded yet in blowing them away or bringing to an end their days of grace." (p. 102) If you can accept death as a inevitable and flesh as merely flesh, you don't "need a strong stomach" to read this brilliant book. Mondazy's Fish keeps silvering into our rooms when we least expect it. We the readers become voyeurs as we watch biology combine with zoology and take over the process of dust to dust. "Where there is sex there is death" Crace writes. Death catches most of us with our pants down (as it literally does to Celice and Joseph) because we sequester death away and apart. We cannot hide behind our technology to protect us. Its insignificance in the face of the ultimate realilty is laughable (a single window wiper wiping in the sun). The poetry of this book is so compelling I feel better equipped to face death without making it macabre. I can't believe I just chanced upon this writer and definitely will be reading more of his work.
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if given the choice between reading this book again or facing a demise similar to the main characters, i would have a difficult decision to make. i felt as if i was on life support as i dragged my flagging interest to the finish line of this story. it wasn't much of a story at that. there was no character development for the first 100 pages and mr. crace seemed to relish his ability to discuss every contusion and gash inflicted upon the victims (if i wanted anatomy i would have ordered a gray's from amazon). i have no doubt that mr. crace can write, it's just that he establishes no balance when attempting to allow the reader to form a bond with his characters. there are too many details about what is not important and not enough information that could deliver a story. save your cash and your time because there are bigger and better opportunities on this site.
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Every multi-celled creature ends in death. Unless you know someone who has been murdered, and layed undiscovered, and rotting, you don't know what happens after death. If you read this book, you will.
You will discover life and death, at its most basic, primitive source. This book crosses the lines of what most of us want to know. The private, intimate world of a couple murdered on the sand dunes, the decomposition of their bodies. The daughter what hates her parents, and comes to love them in death.
I am torn between loving and hating this book. If you don't have a strong stomach, or can not dissassociate, don't read it. If you can, it is compelling, and worth the journey.
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Death on Earth(?)
There's an odd stillness to this book -- the stillness of bodies decaying on beach? It's a fascinating experiment where what happens to the main characters' bodies after death is... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 20. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
simple lives and deaths, complex feelings
Being Dead is a very unusual novel. On the surface it tells of the senseless death of two academics/scientests (.. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Juli 2000 von lazza
The price of nostalgia
They pay a heavy price for their nostalgia, Jospeh and Celice who, after 30 years, return to the place where they first made love in order to retain something of the earlier magic... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Juni 2000 von Daniel Sandstrm
Strangely Beautiful & Absorbing
This strange and absorbing novel explores death both as an inevitable yet beautiful part of the natural world and as a starting point for visiting the lives that preceded it, in... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
Scientific-poetical, intellectually challenging
The paradox of the title captures well what Crace is courageously and creatively aiming at - a thorough approach at a basic as well as mysterious aspect of everyone's life, death. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Juni 2000 von Ansgar von der Osten
Sweet, sweet death
When one thinks of romance, decomposing next to your loved one doesn't usually come to mind. Jim Crace is no usual author, though, and if "Being Dead" is any indication,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Juni 2000 von Eric J. Clark
Thanatopsis
A haunting, lyrical work about the murder of a perfectly ordinary couple killed on the beach as they attempt to make love to commemorate the 30th anniversary of their first... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
Wonder-full and strangely absorbing
This is an oddly sensual book about death and relationship. Oddly sensual, but sweetly so despite the nature of the deaths. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juni 2000 von Peter Gilboy
Death before Life
Mr. Crace pulls off a lyrcial, wondrous and amazing feat: death and decomposition join life and love. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Juni 2000 von "sajeja"
Eulogy As Higher Education
Most of us have been seated at a funeral, the ominous heaviness saturating the confines of the church or synagouge like the thick mist of a humid dawn. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Juni 2000 von Marc Snyder
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