- Bible, Fiction, History of Biblical events, Temptation
A re-imagining of the forty days Christ spent in the wilderness being tempted by the devil.
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Contemplative, grave, intimate and prestige.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Jim Crace
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 242
- Publisher
- Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Viking
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312207021
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First sentence
“Miri's husband was shouting in his sleep, not words that she could recognize but simple, blurting fanfares of distress.”
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