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Continent

Jim Crace

First published 1986
Publisher William Heinemann
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art Russell Mills
Pages 154
Price £4.95
ISBN 0434148245

A collection of linked stories set in a fictional continent. Described as a novel by the author and considered to be a novel by the Whitbread Award judges. Winner of the 1986 Whitbread Award for Best First Novel.

Copyright page states "Individual parts of Continent were first published in the New Review, London Magazine, Quarto, London Review of Books and Encounter."
Publication has no Contents page.

Year Reviewer Publication
1987 Pauline Morgan Fantasy Review, July-August 1987

Searching by ISBN: 0434148245

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Talking Skull Jim Crace Novelette
27 The World with One Eye Shut Jim Crace Short Story
47 Cross-Country Jim Crace Short Story
67 On Heat Jim Crace Novelette
93 Sins and Virtues Jim Crace Novelette
117 Electricity Jim Crace Novelette
141 The Prospect from the Silver Hill Jim Crace Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Continent Cover 1987 Picador Trade Paperback Collection 154
Continent Cover 2008 Picador Trade Paperback Collection 176
Continent Cover 2008 Picador eBook Collection
Continent Cover 2008 Anchor Canada Trade Paperback Collection 176
Continent Cover 2017 Ecco / HarperCollins Trade Paperback Collection 160