Description
You're not serious... Please God, no... I don't believe it. We think we like surprises. Shocks, on the other hand, are harder to accept.We lose people. Bad luck, bad judgement, bad habits; fate. They die, they change, they disappear; and sometimes there's a public fuss and sometimes not. Always there are questions (though the answers rarely make a difference). Why did he die? Why did I live? Was the driver drunk? Was the car going too fast? What was she doing there in the first place? Above all: why me?
In this issue of Granta:
- Ariel Dorfman survives the Chilean coup (when he should have died with his friends).
- Linda Grant copes with a mother who can't quite remember who she is.
- Dan Jacobson gives thanks for his grandfather's death (otherwise there would be no Dan Jacobson).
- Deborah Scroggins investigates the well-bred Englishwoman who went to war in Africa.
- Clive Sinclair remembers The Soap Opera from Hell (his life).
- Ian Jack on the people who felt beleaguered by the mourning and the mobs for the Princess of Wales-the week when Britain found that it had a grief police.
PLUS new fiction by Aimee Bender and Jonathan Levi, and Pierre Clastres on the life and death of a stone-age homosexual.
ISBN:9780903141147
