Granta 98: The Deep End (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

Granta 98: The Deep End (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

by IanJack (Editor)

Synopsis

Struggling maybe, but waving not drowning. This issue of Granta contains writing from people whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survival.This work features Diana Athill, Javier Cercas, Gerard Donovan, Richard Ford, James Hamilton-Paterson, Jackie Kay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helen Simpson, Paul Theroux, and a picture essay by Martin Parr.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd
Published: 02 Jul 2007

ISBN 10: 0903141949
ISBN 13: 9780903141949

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Author Bio
Ian Jack has edited Granta since 1995. He began his career in journalism on a weekly newspaper in Scotland in the 1960s. Between 1970 and 1986 he worked for the Sunday Times as a reporter, editor, feature writer and foreign correspondent (mainly in the Indian Subcontinent). He was a co-founder of the Independent on Sunday in 1989 and edited that newspaper between 1991 and 1995. His awards in Britain include those for reporter, journalist and editor of the year. A book of his writing about Britain, Before the Oil Ran Out, was published in 1987. He lives with his family in London.