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Genesis

A Novel

By Jim Crace

Paperback | 9780312423896

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A major new novel about sex and the citizen by the award-winning author of Being Dead

The timid life of actor Felix Dern is uncorrupted by Hollywood, where his success has not yet been shackled with any intrusive fame. But in the theaters and the restaurants of his own city, "Lix" is cContinue

A major new novel about sex and the citizen by the award-winning author of Being Dead

The timid life of actor Felix Dern is uncorrupted by Hollywood, where his success has not yet been shackled with any intrusive fame. But in the theaters and the restaurants of his own city, "Lix" is celebrated and admired for his looks, for his voice, and for his unblemished private life. He has succeeded in courting popularity everywhere, this handsome hero of the left, this charming darling of the right, this ever-twisting weather vane.

A perfect life? No, he is blighted. He has been blighted since his teens, for every woman he sleeps with bears his child. So now it is Mouetta's turn. Their baby's due in May. Lix wants to say he feels besieged. Another child? To be so fertile is a curse...

In Genesis, Jim Crace, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the Whitbread Novel of the Year, charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man, the sexual emancipation of a city, and the sexual ambiguities of humankind.

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  • Genesis

    Genesis Jim Crace Picador Paperback 256 pages November 2004 All art comes down to sex and death, as the famous maxim says. And sex never fails to interest. We seem to have an endless interest in the sexual lives, real or imagined, straightforward or ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

  • Homo Erectus

    Human life is framed by two great mysteries. In Being Dead (1999), the British novelist Jim Crace gives a wholly secular answer to the question “What happens when we die?” Tightly organized, the novel centers on the elaborate conceit of a middle-aged ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sun, 22 Aug 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 256 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0312423896
  • ISBN-13: 9780312423896
  • Publisher: Picador
  • Pub date: Nov 01, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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