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Granta Books Australia: 70 (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing S.)
Much of <I>Granta</I>'s success as the Anglo-American fiction and journalism magazine of choice rests upon its <I>Best of Young British Novelists</I> issues, which appear every 10 years and feature an editorial board's selection of 20 British fiction writers under the age of 40. The first two issues, published in 1983 and 1993, included the likes of Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, Pat Barker, Martin Amis, Jeanette Winterson, Will Self and Ian McEwan. These anthologies have become a passport to success for young British authors. <p>Whether the 2003 issue will prove as prophetic as its predecessors remains to be seen. It includes some wonderful writing--Ben Rice's story of marital crises among Koi fanciers, Look at Me, I'm Beautiful! is particularly memorable--and some uneven ventures, such as AL Kennedy's Room 506 a novel excerpt narrated by a chronic amnesiac, and Hari Kunzru's Lila.exe an account of the development of a Bollywood-inspired computer virus.<p> Regular <I>Granta</I> readers will recognise a number of the featured writers, including contributing editor Andrew O'Hagan. Most of these authors have yet to attain worldwide fame, although the ubiquitous Zadie Smith is represented with an excellent short story. The scope of the issue generally lies within <I>Granta</I>'s house style--well-written, somewhat conservative realist fiction--although there are a few excursions into weirder territory, such as Toby Litt's baroque essay-story, The Hare and Robert McLiam Wilson's magic realist The Dreamed in which war dead are rematerialised and resurrected in the bed of an aging English man. <p> The practice of showcasing novelists through a selection of short stories, novel excerpts and works-in-progress is obviously a compromise, as only those writers who are particularly skilled at short fiction will be seen at their best. Teasers are never as satisfying as completed works and a few contributors--such as Sarah Waters and Alan Warner--don't come off as well as they might, simply because their excerpts cry out for context. Anyone who is particularly interested in new British fiction would do well to regard this issue as a reading list, not a representative anthology, even though a number of delights are to be found within. <I>--Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca</I>
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Granta Books The View from Africa (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing S.)
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Granta Books This Overheating World (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing S.)
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Granta Books Confessions of a Middle-aged Ecstacy-eater (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing S.)
Much of <I>Granta</I>'s success as the Anglo-American fiction and journalism magazine of choice rests upon its <I>Best of Young British Novelists</I> issues, which appear every 10 years and feature an editorial board's selection of 20 British fiction writers under the age of 40. The first two issues, published in 1983 and 1993, included the likes of Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, Pat Barker, Martin Amis, Jeanette Winterson, Will Self and Ian McEwan. These anthologies have become a passport to success for young British authors. <p>Whether the 2003 issue will prove as prophetic as its predecessors remains to be seen. It includes some wonderful writing--Ben Rice's story of marital crises among Koi fanciers, Look at Me, I'm Beautiful! is particularly memorable--and some uneven ventures, such as AL Kennedy's Room 506 a novel excerpt narrated by a chronic amnesiac, and Hari Kunzru's Lila.exe an account of the development of a Bollywood-inspired computer virus.<p> Regular <I>Granta</I> readers will recognise a number of the featured writers, including contributing editor Andrew O'Hagan. Most of these authors have yet to attain worldwide fame, although the ubiquitous Zadie Smith is represented with an excellent short story. The scope of the issue generally lies within <I>Granta</I>'s house style--well-written, somewhat conservative realist fiction--although there are a few excursions into weirder territory, such as Toby Litt's baroque essay-story, The Hare and Robert McLiam Wilson's magic realist The Dreamed in which war dead are rematerialised and resurrected in the bed of an aging English man. <p> The practice of showcasing novelists through a selection of short stories, novel excerpts and works-in-progress is obviously a compromise, as only those writers who are particularly skilled at short fiction will be seen at their best. Teasers are never as satisfying as completed works and a few contributors--such as Sarah Waters and Alan Warner--don't come off as well as they might, simply because their excerpts cry out for context. Anyone who is particularly interested in new British fiction would do well to regard this issue as a reading list, not a representative anthology, even though a number of delights are to be found within. <I>--Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca</I>
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Granta 80
Everybody has been a reluctant or willing member of one: the family, the school, the football side, the quiz team. Group photographs are their souvenir. In this issue of "Granta", writers take out their group photographs and evoke the times, places and people they used to know. author: ; publisher: Granta Publications
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Granta Books Granta 77: What We Think of America
The bulk of <I>Granta 77: What We Think of America</I>, is devoted to exploring the effect of American culture, politics and economics on 24 writers in the light of the horrific events of September 11, 2001. As editor Ian Jack states in his introduction, the pieces here are not about that day, nor are they excuses for it but an attempt to understand quite why, after the initial outpouring of sympathy, a mood of anti-Americanism seemed to take hold. The most vocal critics of the period argued that America's policies had, effectively, caused the attacks. Strains of they had it coming to them were also heard across the globe. <p> With the exception of Harold Pinter who describes the United States as a fully-fledged, award-winning, gold-plated monster, the majority of contributors offer only fairly measured critiques of American foreign policy. Ahdaf Soueif and Raja Shehadeh condemn its failure to address the issue of a Palestinian state. While Ramachandra Guha maintains that it is the curious co-existence of contradictory values--democratic and yet instinctively imperialist--that tends to make America not a pretty sight on the world's stage. John Gray argues that America is just too rich in contradictions for any definition of it to be possible; in his opinion it is actually unknowable. Doris Lessing makes a similar point, in her view all talk of America as if it were a homogenous unity isn't useful but she does go on to hazard a few, actually rather pertinent, generalisations of her own. Taken individually some of the essays are quite insubstantial but, without wishing to be banal, it is astonishing quite how thought-provoking they are as whole. Ranging from the intimate and autobiographical to the polemical, they provide an intriguing assessment of the world's remaining superpower. With an extract from JM Coetzee's novel <I>Youth</I> and pieces from Blake Morrison and Ziauddin Sardar, this issue is an absorbing read.--<I>Travis Elborough</I>
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Granta Books Film: 86 (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing S.)
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Granta (NY) Love Stories (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
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Granta Books Rome (Granta City Guides)
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Granta Books The Granta Book of the American Short Story
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Granta Books The Granta Book of the Family
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Granta Books Granta 89: The Factory (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
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Granta Magazine Granta 92: The View from Africa (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
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Granta Books Country Life (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
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Granta Magazine Granta 88: Mothers (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
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Granta Book of the American Long Story, The
This collection brings together 11 contemporary American writers. It includes long stories by Edwidge Danticat, Stanley Elkin, Ernest J. Gaines, Barry Hannah, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Jane Smiley, William Styron, Peter Taylor and Eudora Welty. author: ; publisher: Granta Bks.
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Granta Film Diary 2006
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Granta Book of the American Short Story, The
An anthology of American short fiction published in the last 47 years, including works by: Lorrie Moore; Amy Tan; Joyce Carol Oates; Kurt Vonnegut; John Updike; Raymond Carver; and Harold Brodkey. author: ; publisher: Granta Bks.
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Granta Books Granta 84: Over There: How America Sees the Rest of the World (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
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Granta Books Hidden Histories: 85 (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing S.)
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The Foundling Press Book, Film and Theatre Reviews of William Empson Originally Printed in the Cambridge Magazine Granta 1927-1929
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Granta Books The Granta Book of India
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Granta Books Granta Film Diary 2006: Books That Inspired Great Films
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