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GRANTA 108: CHICAGO
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| By: |
John Freeman |
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Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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£9.48 |
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£3.51 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1905881126 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781905881123 |
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| Publisher: |
GRANTA PUBLICATIONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
5 October, 2009 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
America's original literary city - its bare-knuckled, wind-chapped, broad-shouldered, metropolis by the lake - is viscerally conjured by the world's best writers. |
| Synopsis: |
Saul Bellow and Ernest Hemingway grew up there. The eight-hour work day, the Ponzi scheme and the rhythm and blues have risen from its streets. But Chicago is not just a city of the past. In this dynamic issue, Granta brings the one-time industrial hub to life through the eyes of exciting new writers, from home grown stars like George Saunders and Stuart Dybek, to immigrants who have come to the city from Bosnia, China and Ethiopia. In this issue, Aleksandar Hemon plays football with Italians and Tibetans along Lake Shore Drive. Chicago born MacArthur 'genius' grant-winning photographer Camilo Jose Vegara captures the demolition of the city's massive public housing estates. Richard Powers recollects the flood of 1992. Don DeLillo remembers Nelson Algren. Alex Kotlowitz explores the cost of urban violence and Dinaw Mengestu describes moving back home to run his dying father's messenger business. Plus a sneak preview of Peter Carey's new novel. Finally, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka meditates on the meaning of the city's most visible son, Barack Obama.Out of these stories - which will be wrapped in a beautiful cover by Chris Ware - will arise a vivid portrait of a city remaking itself: a city shredded by violence but poised for a new future; a city that once again has a legitimate claim to being the home of the world's best writers. |
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UK |
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Granta Publications Ltd |
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