Granta Issue 111: Going Back: Summer 2010 - Couverture souple

Freeman, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1905881193 ISBN 13 : 9781905881192

Editeur : Granta Magazine, 2010

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Magazine
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905881193
• ISBN 13: 9781905881192
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible