Granta 55: Children

by IanJack (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.25

  For more than a decade, Granta has spanned the globe in the diversity of its writers, in the breadth of talent it displays, and in its expansive coverage of important issues. In this new isue, Allan Garganus, Susan Swan, Tony Gould, Blake Morrison, Joy Williams and other writers explore the theme of Children in outstanding pieces of fiction, memoirs and more.

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  Paperback
  2008

  $3.25

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $21.05

  A fiction special, introducing two new authors. Gary Shteyngart is not yet 30. His story, Several Anecdotes About My Wife , is a funny and scurrilous account of a young Russian immigrant's disastrous marriage to a native New Yorker. Jon McGregor works as washer-up in a Nottingham restaurant. His story Jonas is a lyrical and disturbing account of a mysterious death in the Anglian fens. This edition also includes new short stories by Rachel Cusk, Edmund White and Jonathan Ley. Other features include: Arthur Miller remembers his life at the Chelsea Hotel, with Brendan Behan and Dylan Thomas; Rory Stewart among the dervishes in Pakistan; Aleksander Hemon's return to Sarajevo; and a photographic essay by Deirdra O'Callaghan on the lost souls of Camden Town.