![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That novel’s precise, almost sensuous sensibility also comes across in Crace’s newest work, The Devil’s Larder, a collection of 64 short pieces about food that also turn out to be about death, sex, starvation and desire.įood and all the human rituals and passions associated with its consumption make for compelling and surreal tales that are about much more than what’s for dinner. The paradoxical and grammatically awkward title was highly appropriate for its unassuming but innovative take on death. $20īeing Dead, British author Jim Crace’s most recent novel and winner of the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award, was a quiet and daring story about love that began with the couple’s murder. Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux,165 pp. ![]()
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