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Granta. 85

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Granta. 85 Synopsis

This issue of Granta excavates histories both personal and political: repressed memories, unexplored lives, forgotten wars, secret careers.

EUROPE'S LONG-LOST WAR

Giles Foden sails down Lake Tanganyika in search of the true story of the naval adventure that inspired The African Queen WRITING LIKE A MAN James Erdal reveals her life as a literary ghostwriter THE CHILD I

DID NOT HAVE

Diana Athill remembers the baby she wanted but never had A PROTESTANT BOY Geoffrey Beattie revisits his unfashionable Ulster heritage '

HE JUST LIT YER MAN'

Brian Cathcart investigates how his poor namesake came to be burned alive

NEED TO THE BRAIN

Daniel Smith delves into the mysteries of psychosurgery - one man's last, best hope WITH a portfolio of colour photographs by David J. Spear on the private life of a priest PLUS new fiction by Orhan Pamuk, Anne Enright, T. C.

Boyle, Jackie Kay, Robert Lennon and Jonathan Tel

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ISBN: 9780903141673
Publication date:
Author: Ian Jack
Publisher: Granta Magazine an imprint of Granta Publications
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 256 pages
Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing
Genres: Biography, Literature and Literary studies

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