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The Gift of Stones Jim Crace

The Gift of Stones By Jim Crace

The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace


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Summary

At the twilight of the Stone Age, an isolated village of stonemasons lives in relative prosperity. A young man, a one-armed dreamer unable to work the stone, becomes the village story-teller. Venturing outside the village for inspiration, he finds the tale of a metal that will change their lives.

The Gift of Stones Summary

The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace

'Salute the liars - they can make the real world disappear and a fresh world take its place...' Set in a coastal Stone Age village at the advent of bronze, Jim Crace's second novel, published for the first time in Penguin paperback, is marked by astonishing poetic resonance and daring imagination. As the stories of the narrators unfold, conflicting truths are revealed - truths which deal with contemporary issues of work, love, lying and forces of change.

About Jim Crace

Born in London in 1946, Jim Crace has lived in Birmingham for many years. He is the author of seven novels (all available in Penguin) including Quarantine and Being Dead. He has received the Whitbread First Novel Award, the E.M.Forster Award, the Guardian Fiction Award, the US National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. Quarantine was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Additional information

GOR004395905
9780141012346
014101234X
The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20030904
176
N/A
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