Annotation
"Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell - just look at them - that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching her, curved round her shin, the couple seemed to have achieved that peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. Anyone who found them there, so wickedly disfigured, would nevertheless be bound to see that something of their love had survived the death of cells. The corpses were surrendered to the weather and the earth, but here were still a man and wife, quietly resting; flesh on flesh; dead, but not departed yet."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Awards
2000 New York Times Editors' Choice
2000 National Book Critics Circle Awards
2001 American Library Association Notable Books
Characters
| Name | Celice |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Zoologist |
| Traits | Married |
| Mother | |
| Name | Joseph |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Oceanographer |
| Traits | Married |
| Father | |
| Name | Syl |
| Gender | Female |
| Genre | Love story Psychological Fiction |
| Topics | Beating deaths Double murder Death and dying Reminiscences Eternal love |
| Setting | Baritone Bay |