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Set in the Bronze age, this is the story of the village dreamer, an apparently useless contributor to the tribal tradition of stone-cutting. Jim Grace's "Continent" won the 1986 "Guardian" Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Book-of-the-Year First Novel Prize and the David Higham Prize for Fiction.
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‘The intense story of the pre-historical moment when stone yielded to bronze . . . Crace is a virtuoso’ Frank Kermode, New York Times
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‘His style is as simple as it is beautiful . . . Crace reveals the dignity in human labour and the power of the passing of time’ Herald
‘A deceptively simple book that explores profound ideas with a rare delicacy of touch’ Los Angeles Times
‘Bewitching . . . brings a lost world to life and imbues it with a sense of wonder’ Sunday Times
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 074939577X
- ISBN 13 9780749395773
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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