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Jim Crace


Born
in Hertfordshire, England, The United Kingdom
March 01, 1946

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Literature & Fiction


James "Jim" Crace is an award-winning English writer. His novel Quarantine, won the Whitbread Novel award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Harvest won the International Impac Dublin Literary Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Crace grew up in Forty Hill, an area at the far northern point of Greater London, close to Enfield where Crace attended Enfield Grammar School. He studied for a degree at the Birmingham College of Commerce (now part of Birmingham City University), where he was enrolled as an external student of the University of London. After securing a BA (Hons) in English Literature in 1968, he travelled overseas with the UK organization Voluntary Services Overseas (V ...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 26,374 ratings · 3,282 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors
Harvest
3.59 avg rating — 9,114 ratings — published 2013 — 51 editions
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Being Dead
3.72 avg rating — 5,229 ratings — published 1999 — 63 editions
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Quarantine
3.68 avg rating — 4,014 ratings — published 1997 — 48 editions
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The Pesthouse
3.51 avg rating — 2,603 ratings — published 2007 — 36 editions
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The Gift of Stones
3.84 avg rating — 1,012 ratings — published 1988 — 30 editions
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The Devil's Larder
3.76 avg rating — 904 ratings — published 2001 — 41 editions
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The Melody
3.13 avg rating — 812 ratings — published 2018 — 21 editions
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Continent
3.61 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 1986 — 33 editions
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Arcadia
3.57 avg rating — 505 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions
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Signals of Distress
3.77 avg rating — 394 ratings — published 1994 — 24 editions
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“There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.”
― Jim Crace, Harvest
tags: loss, missing-someone
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“There is no remedy for death—or birth—except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.”
― Jim Crace, Being Dead
tags: death, life, living
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“...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.”
― Jim Crace, The Pesthouse
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