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Critical Review by Eric Korn

977 words, approx. 4 pages

In the following review, Korn offers a positive assessment of Quarantine. Roughing it in Ruristan is a fine thing, but one of the keenest pleasures of dependent travel is the trusting sense of infanti... Read more

Critical Review by Tobias Jones

762 words, approx. 3 pages

In the following review, Jones offers a positive assessment of Quarantine. It's hard to imagine who will dislike Jim Crace's startling, beguiling novel more: atheists who resent his thic... Read more

Critical Review by Robert Irwin

2,240 words, approx. 8 pages

In the following review of Quarantine, Irwin commends Crace's literary skill and ingenuous imagination, but finds faults in the novel's self-contained and enigmatic significance. ‘... Read more

Critical Review by Richard Eder

1,164 words, approx. 4 pages

In the following review, Eder offers a positive assessment of Quarantine. A cool metaphysician, the British writer Jim Crace sets his novels in a prehistoric past (The Gift of Stones) or hypothetical ... Read more

Critical Review by Bruce Bawer

840 words, approx. 3 pages

In the following review, Bawer offers a positive assessment of Quarantine. Though the biblical account of Jesus's 40 days in the desert and his temptation there by the devil takes up only a few... Read more

Critical Review by Luke Timothy Johnson

1,020 words, approx. 4 pages

In the following review, Johnson offers a positive assessment of Quarantine. Jim Crace has pulled off the literary equivalent of a perfect triple-triple jump in ice-skating. He has written a novel tha... Read more

Critical Review by Brooke Allen

1,676 words, approx. 6 pages

In the following review, Allen offers a positive assessment of Quarantine. One hundred and thirty years after T. H. Huxley coined the term “agnosticism” in an attempt to reconcile religi... Read more

Critical Review by Christian Century

309 words, approx. 2 pages

In the following review, the critic offers a positive assessment of Quarantine. This novel about Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness—and the six people who spend more than a month in close ... Read more

Critical Review by Kenneth Arnold

838 words, approx. 3 pages

In the following excerpt, Arnold offers a positive assessment of Quarantine. The desire for solitude seems to be strong in us, even though we humans are gregarious. There are many reasons to want to b... Read more