Granta 39: The Body (Granta (Viking))

With novelists A. S. Byatt and Salman Rushdie and Waterstone's marketing di rector John Mitchinson, Granta editor Buford chose the "best" 20 British no velists under the age of 40 (see p. 81 for details on the controversy the l ist generated in England). Readers should approach this Granta issue as a s morgasbord of sorts: samples of fiction, essays and drama on a wide variety of themes are thrown together here, and while they are generally well-craf ted and clever they are also frequently not the writers' most exciting effo rts. Iain Banks's protagonist is a five-year-old boy who panics when his fr iend slips through the ice; Anne Billson's self-described "born-again virgi n," who hasn't had sex in years, finds herself pregnant; and, at 16, Esther Freud's heroine "had tried every drug she had heard of. She was free to be gin her own life." Helen Simpson depicts a harried young mother's feeling o f self-obliteration; Jeanette Winterson reports on sex with her lesbian lov er Picasso ("She rushes for me bull-subtle, butching at the gate as if she' s come to stud."); Hanif Kureishi probes the Beatles mystique; and Adam Mar s-Jones's whacky, thrifty protagonist returns to the store the meat cleaver that her boyfriend used to slit his wrists.

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ISBN: 0140140506

ISBN-13: 9780140140507

Publisher: Viking Penguin Inc

Year: 1992

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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