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Being Dead
by Crace, Jim
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670856983
- ISBN 13
- 9780670856985
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Viking, 1999. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 210 pages; gentle bumps to spine ends, otherwise in very clean and unmarked unread condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
Synopsis
Being Dead is a novel by the English writer Jim Crace, published in 1999. Its principal characters are married zoologists Joseph and Celice and their daughter Syl. The story tells of how Joseph and Celice, on a day trip to the dunes where they met as students, are murdered by an opportunistic thief. Their bodies lie undiscovered for several days, during the course of which their estranged daughter is made aware of their disappearance and, eventually, discovery.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039281
- Title
- Being Dead
- Author
- Crace, Jim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670856983
- ISBN 13
- 9780670856985
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- FICTION PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE Literature English British
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Eric James
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