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Granta 111: Going Back (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Granta 111 Going Back - Granta: The Magazine of New Writing
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Richard Russo returns home to a hometown on the verge of extinction. Up-and-coming fiction writer Claire Vaye Watkins explores a damaged car on an abandoned road and a Ziploc bag of pristine letters. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shows what happens when a married man?s old flame threatens to return to Lagos. A young Iris Murdo... more » writes devotional letters to the older French Surrealist and Oulipo co-founder Raymond Queneau. Hal Crowther delivers a blistering critique of the Internet?s erosion of solitude.
With extracts from Mark Twain?s never-before published memoir on childhood and Colin Grant?s highly anticipated memoir Bageye at the Wheel; new poetry from Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Nicholas Christopher; and a photographic essay by Ian Teh.
Further works include Elizabeth McCracken's stirring tale of a young widower and the traces we leave behind; Leila Aboulela?s story of an aspiring Sudanese academic?s return to London with his young Muslim wife; foreign correspondent Janine Di Giovanni?s return to Sarajevo to search for a boy she knew fifteen years ago; Peter Orner?s examination of the question `When does a place become something else?? in Chappaquiddick; and Joseph O?Neill on the breaking of America.
Author:
Richard Russo returns home to a hometown on the verge of extinction. Up-and-coming fiction writer Claire Vaye Watkins explores a damaged car on an abandoned road and a Ziploc bag of pristine letters. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shows what happens when a married man?s old flame threatens to return to Lagos. A young Iris Murdo... more » writes devotional letters to the older French Surrealist and Oulipo co-founder Raymond Queneau. Hal Crowther delivers a blistering critique of the Internet?s erosion of solitude.
With extracts from Mark Twain?s never-before published memoir on childhood and Colin Grant?s highly anticipated memoir Bageye at the Wheel; new poetry from Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Nicholas Christopher; and a photographic essay by Ian Teh.
Further works include Elizabeth McCracken's stirring tale of a young widower and the traces we leave behind; Leila Aboulela?s story of an aspiring Sudanese academic?s return to London with his young Muslim wife; foreign correspondent Janine Di Giovanni?s return to Sarajevo to search for a boy she knew fifteen years ago; Peter Orner?s examination of the question `When does a place become something else?? in Chappaquiddick; and Joseph O?Neill on the breaking of America.
ISBN-13: 9781905881192
ISBN-10: 1905881193
Publication Date: 7/26/2010
Pages: 254
Rating: 1
ISBN-10: 1905881193
Publication Date: 7/26/2010
Pages: 254
Rating: 1
4 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Grove Press, Granta
Book Type: Paperback
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Book Type: Paperback
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