Book description
Six is a tender, erotic comedy about a celebrated actor with an unusual
quality. 'Every woman he dares to sleep with bares his child . . . '
Gifted or cursed, Felix Dern has loved, certainly, but have these loves
ever lasted? Only perhaps in this one particular way. Lix's six children
are a constant reminder of what he did, with whom, and all in the
pursuit of an elusive dream. Set in the glorious City of Kisses , this
seamless novel charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man
through an original and mischievous exploration of attraction, polarity,
and everything in between. 'Furiously frank and tender . . . Crace makes
you feel as if you have never read a single true word about love, sex or
babies until now' Julie Myerson 'Ingenious and beautifully written'
Jonathan Raban, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia,
Signals of Distress, Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year;
shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (2001 National Book
Critics' Circle Award), The Devil's Larder, Six and The Pesthouse. His
novels have been translated into twenty-six languages. In 1999 Jim
Crace was elected to the Royal Society of Literature.
