Volume 39, Number 20 · December 3, 1992
Cornering the Market
By Robert M. Adams
Arcadia
by Jim Crace
Atheneum, 311 pp., $20.00
Nothing but Blue Skies
by Thomas McGuane
Houghton Mifflin/A Seymour Lawrence Book, 349 pp., $21.95
Leviathan
by Paul Auster
Viking, 275 pp., $21.00
The Art of Hunger
by Paul Auster
Sun and Moon Press, 312 pp., $24.95
Jim Crace is a British writer who has just published his third work of fiction without having made much impression in his first two. This seems likely to change soon. Born in London in 1946 but resident in Birmingham, Crace is apparently tied to no literary group of academic or political influence. Although our real business here is with his third work of fiction, Arcadia, a preliminary account of the first two, Continent and The Gift of Stones, may give some notion of where Jim Crace is coming from.
Review, 3785 words
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