Granta Issue 111: Going Back: Summer 2010 (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

Name: Granta Issue 111: Going Back: Summer 2010 (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
Brand: Granta Magazine
SKU: 9781905881192-G
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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 Murdoch 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; er Orner s examination of the question ?When does a place become something else? in Chappaquiddick; and Joseph O Neill on the breaking of America.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 248
Release Date:: 2010-07-26
Publication Date:: 2010-07-26
Publisher:: Granta Magazine
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 1905881193
Weight:: 375 g

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