Biography
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Biography
(Granta, 41)
Granta , Penguin, 1992
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Why do biographies remain so popular? "Granta 41" presents a special collection of biographies organized around a single idea - how do you tell the story of a life?. Also in this issue is the exclusive first publication of Saul Bellow's "Memoirs of a Bootlegger's Son", James Atlas on Bellow's apprenticeship in Chicago, Andrew Motion on the discovery of Philip Larkin's secret Northumberland hideaway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the mysterious Frau Frida whom he first met in Vienna after the war, plus Richard Holmes, Ian Hamilton, Louise Eldrich, Lorna Sage, and Luc Sante amid the police archives of 1914 New York.
Table of Contents
- Memoirs of a bootlegger's son, Saul Bellow
- starting out in Chicago (Saul Bellow), James Atlas
- dreams for hire (Frau Frida), Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- when did you last see your father? (Dr Arthur Morrison), Blake Morrison
- a very young dancer (Moira), Todd McEwen
- the names of women (Virginia Grandbois, Elise Eliza McCloud, Justine Gourneau), Louise Erdrich
- the contents of pockets (the Panther Boys, George McAghon, Mrs Cornelius, Miss Wheelan, Marion Hart, Gaspare Candella, Giuseppe Certona and one unidentified), Luc Sante
- breaking in (Philip Larkin), Andrew Motion
- among the tulips (James Boswell), Richard Holmes
- a colossal hoard (the descendants of James Boswell), Ian Hamilton
- life and art (Jean Vaublin), John Banville
- death of the author (Angela Carter), Lorna Sage.
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