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      Quarantine

      by Jim Crace
      Published
      Mar 1998
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      242
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      A controversial novel of faith and mystery about a group of desert travelers and their encounter with Jesus.
      Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker Prize finalist
      A New York Times Notable Book
      A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
      Quarantine is an imaginative and powerful retelling of Christ's fabled forty-day fast in the desert. In Jim Crace's account, Jesus travels to a cluster of arid caves where he crosses paths with a small group of exiles and changes their lives in unexpected ways. Evoking the strangeness and beauty of the desert landscape, Crace provocatively interprets one of our most important stories.

      "Stunning . . . Crace is a writer of hallucinatory skill." —John Updike, The New Yorker
      "Engaging . . . magical . . . There is wit and meat in every detail. . . . Crace's portrait of Jesus is audacious and disconcerting." —Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times
      "A spiritual mystery of the best kind . . . the creation of an ambitious imagination . . . a literary miracle." —USA Today
      "The ways in which Crace has the six desert dwellers interrelate with each other and with Jesus are spellbinding; the book is a superbly crafted combination of historical and inspirational fiction that is genuinely unique." —Publishers Weekly

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      Historical Literary

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      Mar 1999 Picador ISBN 0312199511
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      Apr 1998 Penguin (UK) ISBN 014023974X
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      First Edition Mar 1998 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374239622
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      Jul 2000 ISIS Audio Books ISBN 0753109085
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      May 1998 G.K. Hall & Company ISBN 0783801130
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