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Granta 63: Beasts (The Magazine of New Writing)

Granta 63: Beasts (The Magazine of New Writing)

Ian Jack

This issue takes a wayward look at the lives of beasts. A dog prepares for the death of his master; a movie-going tarantula has a crush on Nicole Kidman; and a raven learns to speak Spanish. Photography of China's new young women and the streets of New York also features.
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THE SCENE OF THE CRIME: Genocide is a word that has haunted this century, but its definition is contentious and our memory of it selective. A photographic essay by Simon Norfolk introduced by Michael Ignatieff.BEASTS: what they make of us, and how they shape us. Including Paul Auster living a dog's life; Hilary Mantel on a mongrel breed; Sam Toperoff as a tarantula ('Why would we poison anything we weren't going to eat?')NEW FICTION: from John Barth, T.C. Boyle, Jackie Kay, and Martin Amis ('Love without words. A caveman could do it. And it sounded like something that Picasso or Beckett might have pulled off. But Sir Rodney Peel?')MY FROZEN FATHER: a memory of South Africa by Deborah LevyPUNISHMENT: witnessed in the USA and in Pakistan by Joyce Carol Oates and Anwar Iqbal ('Although I had been writing against public flogging ever since it began, I wanted to watch it.')

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Title - Granta 63: Beasts (The Magazine of New Writing)

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Author - Ian Jack

ISBN 13 - 9780903141208

Imprint - Granta Books

Publisher - Granta Books

Date Published - 01/10/1998

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 146 x 210 x 14mm

Weight - 300 g

Languages - English