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Bookclub: Jim Crace - Quarantine

Jim Crace - Quarantine

02/06/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Jim Crace - Quarantine

Jim Crace discusses his 1997 Booker-shortlisted novel Quarantine with James Naughtie.

Jim Crace discusses his Booker-shortlisted novel Quarantine, with James Naughtie and a group of readers. Recorded at the Stratford-Upon-Avon Literary Festival.

Jim Crace talks about his novel Quarantine. The novel is a re-working of the biblical account of Jesus' forty days spent in the wilderness; and, he says, has its roots in a 'Care in the Community' hostel in Moseley, Birmingham.

First published in 1997, it was shortlisted for that year's Booker Prize for Fiction.

James Naughtie presents and a group of readers ask the questions. Recorded at the Stratford-Upon-Avon Literature Festival.


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