Granta 75 : Brief Encounters Paperback / softback
by Ian Jack
Part of the Granta: The Magazine of New Writing series
Paperback / softback
Description
'I was approached by a courteous young man who handed me a visiting card engraved with his name, Joseph, and his profession: Senior Officers' Pimp.'Norman Lewis embarks on his career as a British spy in Arabia'Why yes, what a pleasure to meet you.' He shook my hand. 'Refresh my memory. Do I owe you something?' Michael Mewshaw at last runs into his hero: Anthony Burgess'Conversation was daunting.
He seemed to have made up his brilliant mind about every possible topic, and condensed his conclusions into unanswerable aphorisms.'Richard Murphy meets W.
H. Auden - and also Theodore Roethke and J. R. AckerleyPLUSNew fiction from Anne Enright, Jackie Kay, Adam Mars-Jones, John McGahern and Paul Therous; in the operating theatre, Paul Broks explores the uncertain life of the brain; and the hidden world of seaports in photographs by Alex Majoli and words by James Hamilton-Paterson.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 35 illustrations
- Publisher:Granta Books
- Publication Date:11/10/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780903141468
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 35 illustrations
- Publisher:Granta Books
- Publication Date:11/10/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780903141468
