Known for his innovative and highly original novels, Jim Crace will be reading from his latest work “The Pesthouse.” According to Crace the book is “a long, picaresque narrative set in the US about two hundred years from now. The country has fragmented. The machines have stopped. The novel provides America not with a science fiction future but with something that it has always wanted and lacked - a medieval “past”, an ancient European experience.”
Jim Crace has written several novels, which have been translated into fourteen languages. He has also won numerous awards including the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E.M. Forster Award and the GAP International Prize for Literature.
WHEN: 6:00pm
ADMISSION: Free
WHERE: Hammer Museum
ADDRESS: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
PHONE: (310) 443-7000
CONTACT: www.hammer.ucla.edu
