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Six is a tender, erotic comedy about a celebrated actor with an unusual quality.
'Every woman he dares to sleep with bares his child . . . '
Gifted or cursed, Felix Dern has loved, certainly, but have these loves ever lasted? Only perhaps in this one particular way. Lix's six children are a constant reminder of what he did, with whom, and all in the pursuit of an elusive dream.
Set in the glorious City of Kisses , this seamless novel charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man through an original and mischievous exploration of attraction, polarity, and everything in between.
'Furiously frank and tender ... Crace makes you feel as if you have never read a single true word about love, sex or babies until now' Julie Myerson
'Ingenious and beautifully written' Jonathan Raban, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia, Signals of Distress, Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year; shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (2001 National Book Critics Circle Award), The Devil's Larder, Six and The Pesthouse. His novels have been translated into 26 languages. In 1999 Jim Crace was elected to the Royal Society of Literature.
'Every woman he dares to sleep with bares his child . . . '
Gifted or cursed, Felix Dern has loved, certainly, but have these loves ever lasted? Only perhaps in this one particular way. Lix's six children are a constant reminder of what he did, with whom, and all in the pursuit of an elusive dream.
Set in the glorious City of Kisses , this seamless novel charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man through an original and mischievous exploration of attraction, polarity, and everything in between.
'Furiously frank and tender ... Crace makes you feel as if you have never read a single true word about love, sex or babies until now' Julie Myerson
'Ingenious and beautifully written' Jonathan Raban, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia, Signals of Distress, Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year; shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (2001 National Book Critics Circle Award), The Devil's Larder, Six and The Pesthouse. His novels have been translated into 26 languages. In 1999 Jim Crace was elected to the Royal Society of Literature.