Reviewed: Jim Crace grew up along London?s northern perimeter in a housing estate that felt, he has said, like the last building before the countryside began. In one direction stretched an interminably rural England, in the other an interminable metropolis. Through this accident of childhood, Crace developed an edgeland imagination that has powered his writing ever since, attracting him to dramatic showdowns between clashing values. His characters typically face some encroaching, inhospitable new order, as in ?Harvest,? his glorious new novel, where they must scramble to adapt or be mowed down.
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