Continent - Stories

Jim Crace's imaginative first book, seven linked stories, now available in a deluxe paperback edition in Ecco's The Art of the Story Series "Makes us see our own world more clearly . . . brilliant, provocative and delightful" --the New York Times Jim Crace's internationally acclaimed first book explores the tribes and communities, conflicts and superstitions, flora and fauna of a wholly spellbinding place: an imaginary seventh continent. In these seven tales Crace travels a strange and wonderful landscape: "Talking Skull" takes the reader to a tiny agricultural village renowned for the sexually-charged, mystical milk of its calves; "Electricity" introduces a remote flatland region where a monumental ceiling fan changes an entire town's attitude toward modernization. From the acacia scrub of the flatlands to a city bazaar jammed with vegetable stalls, tourists, and beggars, Crace's invented world is as fabulous as it is eerily familiar.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Crace
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780062662408
• ISBN: 978-0-06-266240-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 9 mm
• Series: Art of the Story; Art of the Story
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fantasy, Narrative theme: Interior life, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, FICTION: Fantasy / General, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Sagas, FICTION: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Friendship, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Modern and Contemporary romance, Classic fiction: general and literary, FICTION: Hispanic & Latino / General, Literature / General Fiction