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Signals of Distress

Signals of Distress

by JimCrace (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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    Paperback 1995

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    Hardcover 1994

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Synopsis

Winter 1836, and the Belle of Wilmington discharges its doomed crew on Wherrytown. Little daunted, the Captain and his sailors flirt, drink and brawl their way through the village, marooned along with Aymer Smith, a virgin and a blunderer in search of a wife. As vivid and alive as characters by Dickens, these men play out their dreams against a haunting, monumental landscape, bringing the New World back to the Old, with fresh discoveries, fresh hazards, fresh hopes.

'The passions and mores of the 1830s are flawlessly delineated in this masterly novel, imbued with the tang and power of the sea' Independent

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 306
 Edition: On Demand
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 04 Jan 2008
ISBN 10: 0330453343
ISBN 13: 9780330453349

Media Reviews
Signals of Distress is an engrossing book...Crace is a genius at making round and really human characters, and his characters make his novel superb. -- Newsday
One of the brightest lights in contemporary British fiction. With beguiling narrative ease and prose lyric enough to invest the most ordinary events with mystery, Mr. Crace...lays bare the commonplace events-always unrecorded-that crystallize later as 'history.' -- Charles Johnson, The New York Times Book Review
Crace weaves a progressive magic into this mythic plot with masterful detail, luminous prose and haunting characterization. -- The Boston Globe
Author Bio

Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia, Signals of Distress, Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year; shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (2001 National Book Critics' Circle Award), The Devil's Larder, Six and The Pesthouse. His novels have been translated into twenty-six languages. In 1999 Jim Crace was elected to the Royal Society of Literature.

Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of ten books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award). He lives in Birmingham.