A review by sausome
Being Dead by Jim Crace

4.0

REALLY good. Crace writes with intriguing attention to detail, and doesn't shy away from the details most would avoid. I like his audacity and his style. He brazenly approaches death in all it's glory and reality, and speaks matter-of-factly about the crabs and the worms and the creatures of the coast and sand that continue to live and feed on what's presented to them. The reality is almost too real in that I felt like my life could have really been just in this short novel -- begun and ended. But Crace presents a beauty that can be often missed when things are hidden or kept from us for our "protection" or because we can't accept realities about nature, that we are indeed mortal and everything must die.