Quarantine

Jim Crace

earliest edition we have, 1997 Picador, 1999 paperback 256 pages

A re-imagining of the forty days Christ spent in the wilderness being tempted by the devil. Judea, about two thousand years ago: There were five of them - not in a group, but strung out along the road where earlier that morning the caravan of uncles had passed by. Three men, a woman, and, too far behind for anyone to guess its gender, a fifth. And this fifth was barefoot, and without a staff. No water-skin, or bag o...

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Quarantine paperback · 2001 · Picador USA · 9780312207021
Quarantine paperback · 1999 · Picador · 256 pages · 9780312199517
Quarantine edition · 1998 · G.K. Hall · 321 pages
Quarantine edition · 1998 · Penguin · 242 pages
Quarantine edition · 1997 · Viking · 242 pages
Quarantine edition · 1997 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 242 pages · 9780374239626

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