Granta: The Magazine of New Writing- Granta 91

Ian Jack

• 03 oktober 2005
• 9780903141802

Samenvatting:

The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries, returns to print, with a tender, affecting, and of course funny account of his friendship with Alan Bates, written as he waits in Barbados for Harold Pinter to turn up.



LAST GASPS Thoughts about Alan while waiting for Harold, by Simon Gray The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries returns to print with a tender, affecting, and of course funny account of his friendship with Alan Bates, written as he waits in Barbados for Harold Pinter to turn up. PLUS: Said Sayrafiezadeh on the perils of having a socialist for a father Simon Garfield on his obsession with faulty postage stamps Wayne McLennan on the Australian outback's last boxing nomads. And Margaret Atwood, James Hamilton-Paterson, James Lasdun, Orhan Pamuk, Maarten 't Hart and Tim Winton on our changing weather. With new fiction by Frederic Tuten and Gllad Evron.