Continent Stories - Art of the Story Author:Jim Crace Jim Crace?s imaginative first book, seven linked stories, now available in a deluxe paperback edition in Ecco?s The Art of the Story Series?Makes us see our own world more clearly . . . brilliant, provocative and delightful? --the New York TimesJim Crace?s internationally acclaimed first book explores the tribes and communities, conflicts and su... more »perstitions, flora and fauna of a wholly spellbinding place: an imaginary seventh continent. In these seven tales Crace travels a strange and wonderful landscape: ?Talking Skull? takes the reader to a tiny agricultural village renowned for the sexually-charged, mystical milk of its calves; ?Electricity? introduces a remote flatland region where a monumental ceiling fan changes an entire town?s attitude toward modernization. From the acacia scrub of the flatlands to a city bazaar jammed with vegetable stalls, tourists, and beggars, Crace?s invented world is as fabulous as it is eerily familiar.« less