The gift of stones

Jim Crace

earliest edition we have, 1988 Harper Perennial, 1996 paperback 184 pages

Collier fiction

The stoneworkers remain oblivious to the winds of change in the outside world--until a storyteller returns with a strange, angry woman whose death foretells the coming of metal and the end of stone.

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Editions we hold

The Gift of Stones edition · 2003 · Penguin Books Ltd · 176 pages · 9780141012346
Gift Of Stones paperback · 1996 · Harper Perennial · 184 pages · 9780880014502
The gift of stones edition · 1990 · Collier Books · 169 pages
The gift of stones edition · 1988 · Scribner · 169 pages

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