HAMILTON ‘ Jim Crace, whom John Updike has called ‘a writer of hallucinatory skill and considerable cruelty,’ will participate in the 1999 Living Writers series at 91Â鶹¾«Æ· on Thursday, November 11. After an early afternoon conversation in class with students, he will give a free public reading from his book Quarantine at 4:30 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall.
Quarantine, the startling novel of Jesus Christ’s forty days in the desert, was called by Kirkus Reviews ‘mesmerizing . . . A flawlessly presented tale that opens a window on human aspiration and folly, its revelations full of grit and glory.’ When it was published in 1998, Quarantine won the Whitbread Novel of the Year award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in Britain.
For information about the Living Writers Series, contact the Department of English at 315-228-7262.
-30-
101999rac
October 26, 1999