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1999•195 pages•Published•ENG•User Reviews

Being dead

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"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 here were still a man and wife, quietly resting; flesh on flesh; dead, but not departed yet."--BOOK JACKET.

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FictionMarried peopleMurderNational Book Critics Circle Award Winneraward:national_book_critics_circle_award=2000award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fictionDeathFiction, psychologicalMarried people, fictionEngland, fictionFiction, family lifeFiction, family life, general

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Book Details

First Published

1999

Pages

195 pages

Rating

4.0 / 5

Ratings

1

Editions

4

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language

ENG

Status

Published

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