{"product_id":"signals-of-distress-paperback","title":"Signals of Distress - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJim Crace\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovember, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American sail ship off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a steamer, bearing one Aymer Smith, the foolish well-intentioned prig who will deprive the town of its livelihood, free the African slave, and set into motion a whole series of unforeseeable, tragicomic events. One of the most seductive and surprising novelist at work today, once again creates a richly strange and believable world, uncannily familiar to our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSignals of Distress\u003c\/i\u003e is an engrossing book...Crace is a genius at making round and really human characters, and his characters make his novel superb.\"--\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovember, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American sail ship off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a steamer, bearing one Aymer Smith, the foolish well-intentioned prig who will deprive the town of its livelihood, free the African slave, and set into motion a whole series of unforeseeable, tragicomic events. One of the most seductive and surprising novelist at work today, once again creates a richly strange and believable world, uncannily familiar to our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the brightest lights in contemporary British fiction. With beguiling narrative ease and prose lyric enough to invest the most ordinary events with mystery, Mr. Crace...lays bare the commonplace events-always unrecorded-that crystallize later as 'history.'\"-- Charles Johnson, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Crace weaves a progressive magic into this mythic plot with masterful detail, luminous prose and haunting characterization.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJIM CRACE is the author of seven other novels, including \u003ci\u003eBeing Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eGenesis\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Birmingham, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSignals of Distress\u003c\/i\u003e is an engrossing book...Crace is a genius at making round and really human characters, and his characters make his novel superb.--\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNovember, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American sail ship off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a steamer, bearing one Aymer Smith, the foolish well-intentioned prig who will deprive the town of its livelihood, free the African slave, and set into motion a whole series of unforeseeable, tragicomic events. One of the most seductive and surprising novelist at work today, once again creates a richly strange and believable world, uncannily familiar to our own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the brightest lights in contemporary British fiction. With beguiling narrative ease and prose lyric enough to invest the most ordinary events with mystery, Mr. Crace...lays bare the commonplace events-always unrecorded-that crystallize later as 'history.'-- Charles Johnson, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrace weaves a progressive magic into this mythic plot with masterful detail, luminous prose and haunting characterization.--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJIM CRACE is the author of seven other novels, including \u003ci\u003eBeing Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eGenesis\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Birmingham, England.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim Crace\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven other novels, including \u003ci\u003eBeing Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eGenesis\u003c\/i\u003e. 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