| Quarantine Contributor(s): Crace, Jim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312199511 ISBN-13: 9780312199517 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 Annotation: Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker Prize finalist, "Quarantine" is a controversial tale of faith and mystery about a group of desert travelers and their encounter with Jesus. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Christian - General - Fiction | Historical - Ancient |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98051205 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker finalist: a controversial novel of faith and mystery about a group of desert travellers and their encounter with Jesus Quarantine is Jim Crace's imaginative and powerful retelling of Christ's fabled 40-day fast in the desert. In Crace's account, Jesus travels to a cluster of arid caves where he crosses paths with a small group of exiles who are on a pilgrimage to find redemption. One wealthy and manipulative quarantiner recognizes characteristics in Christ that he believes are divine. Evoking the strangeness and beauty of the desert landscape, Crace provocatively interprets one of our most important stories. |
Contributor Bio(s): Crace, Jim: - Jim Crace is the author of many novels, including Quarantine, which won the 1997 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize for Fiction. His novels have been translated into eighteen languages. He lives with his wife and children in Birmingham, England. |