Granta Issue 111: Going Back: Summer 2010 - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1905881193 ISBN 13: 9781905881192

Casa editrice: Granta Books, 2010

Riassunto

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; 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.

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We all go back: to the house or town where we were raised, to an old friend or lover, to an idea or belief we long ago abandoned. But can we ever trust our memories? And what if - as it is so for so many - it proves still impossible to go back? In this latest issue of Granta, writers meditate on these essential questions from an exciting array

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• Editore: Granta Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1905881193
• ISBN 13: 9781905881192
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Redattore: Freeman John