Biographies: what are they and why do we like reading them? Are the merely a high form of literary gossip, a lazy reader's entertainment (who wants to read all those serious books when you can read about the life instead - the affairs, the drinking, the public rows, the embarrassments)? Or do they satisfy an important curiosity?
This special collection of biographies or brief lives - has been organized around a single idea: how do you tell the story of a life?
| ISBN: | 9780140140521 |
| Publication date: | 7th January 2008 |
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| Publisher: | Granta Magazine an imprint of Granta Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 252 pages |
| Series: | Granta: The Magazine of New Writing |
| Genres: |
Anthologies: general Literary essays |
Biographies: what are they and why do we like reading them? Are the merely a high form of literary gossip, a lazy reader's entertainment (who wants to read all those serious books when you can read about the life instead - the affairs, the drinking, the public rows, the embarrassments)?
Granta 41 features in the following genres: Anthologies: general, Literary essays
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Granta 41 was written by and published by Granta Magazine an imprint of Granta Publications
Granta 41 has 252 pages
Yes it is part of Granta: The Magazine of New Writing series