Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Review of Being Dead

Being Dead
Being Dead
Author: Jim Crace
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
anoisblue avatar reviewed on + 12 more book reviews


This book is one of my all time favorites and has stuck with me since I read it 4 or 5 years ago. It begins with a murder of a man and wife in their 50s when they return to the place they first met. The bodies go undiscovered for some time. There are chapters that deal strictly with the bodies and what is happening to them, and then every other chapter takes them back in time to when they first met and beyond, into childhood. By the time the book is finished, they feel alive again. Amazing work.