Jubilee / Tim Adams ... [et al. ; editor, Ian Jack].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, Tim.

Jack, Ian.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Granta ; 87.

Granta, 0017-3231 ; 87, Fall 2004

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

316 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Granta Publications ; New York : Granta USA, [2004]

Summary:

Granta 87 is a special anniversary issue of the magazine. It features new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Richard Ford, Martin Amis, Amit Chaudhuri, Julian Barnes, Blake Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and others.

Contents:

Motley notes: a river, a magazine, and many apologies / Ian Jack

Benjamin Pell versus the rest of the world: why shredders are a sound idea / Tim Adams

Northanger Abbey: the screenplay / Martin Amis

Bang!: confessions of a champion bomb-maker / James Hamilton-Paterson

Early one morning: fiction / Helen Simpson

Perchance to pick one's nose: a confession of mortality / Jan Morris

Never againism: we should stop lying to ourselves and others / Philip Gourevitch

A new world: a newly discovered story / V.S. Pritchett

Granta, the river: picture essay / Toby Glanville

The view from Yves Hill: fiction / William Boyd

Aspirers: what it means to make it in Hollywood / Pankaj Mishra

The Brooklyn follies: fiction / Paul Auster

Osama's war: the resistance in Baghdad / Wendell Steavenson

Ecstasy: fiction / J. Robert Lennon

The enduring general: ex-president Stroessner is still alive / Isabel Hilton

The tailor of Gujarat: an unwilling icon of secular India / Amit Chaudhuri

When I last saw him: the afterlife of a family memoir / Blake Morrison

Pilgrim: on seeing the wrong picture snapped in Palestine / Patricia Hampl

Making an elephant: good manners in south London, long ago / Graham Swift.

Notes:

Cover title.

ISBN:

1929001177

9781929001170

OCLC:

57033035