{"product_id":"being-dead-a-novel","title":"Being Dead: A Novel","description":"A National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner\n\nFrom the author of Quarantine comes Being Dead, Jim Crace's haunting novel about love, death, and the afterlife.\n\nBaritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered in the dunes.\n\n\"Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell--just look at them--that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching her, curved round her shin, the couple seemed to have achieved that peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. Anyone who found them there, so wickedly disfigured, would nevertheless be bound to see that something of their love had survived the death of cells. The corpses were surrendered to the weather and the earth, but they were still a man and wife, quietly resting; flesh on flesh; dead, but not departed yet.\"\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0312275420\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0312275420.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Crace, Jim\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43494161973309,"sku":"BVV.0312275420.A","price":6.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0312275420-0.jpg?v=1787262453","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/being-dead-a-novel","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}