The bodies are those of Joseph and Celice, who when they had been alive were academics and biologists. The novel also follows them in their student days when they meet on a biology field trip. This part of the novel is full of detailed observations of the natural world.
We later see the couple as they go back to the place of their field trip. Time has not been kind either to them or to the coastline - which is now under development as a luxury gated community.
Given that today we are all too likely to forget our place in the natural world, this is an important book that deserves to be widely read.
Being Dead by Jim Crace, 1999
Young, immortal kids ("The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, the worms play pinochle on your snout, and then you turn an icky green ...") and very creative writers only dwell on such things I suspect!
ReplyDeleteInteresting! Mentally filing this under the To Read list ;)
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ReplyDeleteWow I wish I hadn't been eating lunch when I read this!
ReplyDeleteBook sounds interesting though, I'll check it out ;)
this book sounds intriguing. thanks for sharing. hope all is well.
ReplyDeletei think it's quite a reasonable subject - but i do wonder if it works for the length of a complete novel. strange, but i'd love to see, read or possibly translate it to be available in Hungary as well ;)
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