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Continent
Continent
Author: Jim Crace
To those who say there's nothing new to be written or read, Jim Crace has responded. For this provocative collection of short stories, Crace created a whole new continent. Unnamed and unspecified, the continent nevertheless resonates with characters, developments, contradictions and examinations of the path and power of progress. In one stor...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780880014984
ISBN-10: 0880014989
Publication Date: 1/1997
Pages: 138
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Publisher: Ecco Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Phunter avatar reviewed Continent on + 35 more book reviews
I'm not sure I totally "get it" with this collection of short stories but there is a certain thread of irony that runs through them all. Crace is a good story-teller but I'm not sure I would return to this for a second reading. I much prefer his later works "A Gift of Stones" and "Harvest".


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