Being Dead
Author: Jim Crace
Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. Celice and Joseph, married, middle-aged are lying naked on the coast. They had met and first had sex there as students almost thirty years before. Now they hope to rediscover and rekindle passion in the dunes.But this will be a day for death as well as kisses, a day when murder and eternity will fail to put an end to love…….Read More
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