Download or read book The Gift of Stones written by Jim Crace and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crace’s second novel confirmed his status as a writer of great imagination and skill. Set at the twilight of the Stone Age, a young man elects himself the village storyteller, and hunts restlessly, far and wide, for inspiration. But the information he finds and the people he meets warn of the advent of a new age and the coming of a metal that will change their community’s life irrevocably.