Granta 111. Going Back (Granta. The Magazine of New Writing)

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Granta Publications
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 248 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 mans 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 Internets erosion of solitude.With extracts from Mark Twains never-before published memoir on childhood and Colin Grants 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 McCrackens stirring tale of a young widower and the traces we leave behind; Leila Aboulelas story of an aspiring Sudanese academics return to London with his young Muslim wife; foreign correspondent Janine Di Giovannis return to Sarajevo to search for a boy she knew fifteen years ago; Peter Orners examination of the question When does a place become something else in Chappaquiddick; and Joseph ONeill on the breaking of America.

ISBN: 9781905881192