Buy this book on-line CRACE**,JIM: : CONTINENT.**LONDON.HEINEMANN,1986. ISBN 0434148245.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Colour,wrap-around artwork by Russell Mills,illustrated dw/dj; plus red+white lettered,rectangular sticker (You can afford to make the journey!) to upper wrap; with minimal shelf wear to edges and no nicks or tears present and light,slight creasing to top edges.Top+fore-edges clean;,contents bright and near pristine. Black paper-covered boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and clean but lightly aged feps with rear endpapers brighter.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,includes ffe,half- title+ title pages,3-154pp,1pp blank.
'There and beyond is a seventh continent
- seven peoples,seven masters,seven seas. And its business is trade and superstition' Pycletius,Histories,IV.3.
Jim Crace has created in Continent a myth for our times.It is a seventh continent where past and present are discontinous, where custom and progress form a dangerous
flux.
The seven narratives combine to explore the irreconcilable forces implicit in all cultures - telling of a tribe 'on heat', of a calligrapher who loses his skill,of a runner pitched against a horseman,of a love story between a young girl and a soldier,and of a geologist's search for rare minerals.Author's uncommon debut novel.See also rja1793,rja1794,rja1800.
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