Granta 32 by Bill Buford
Granta's 'History' is devoted to history of the most old-fashioned kind: historia in its original Greek sense. A chronicle of events with a beginning, a middle and an end. 'History' is also about how we make these chronicles. How we manipulate facts. How we exploit and shape and bend memory. How we make up stories to make sense of our past.
Bill Buford is a Staff Writer and European Correspondent for The New Yorker. He was the Fiction Editor of the magazine for eight years, from April 1995 to December 2002. Before that he edited Granta magazine for sixteen years and, in 1989, became the publisher of Granta Books. He has edited three anthologies: The Best of Granta Travel, The Best of Granta Reportage, and The Granta Book of the Family. Bill is also the author of Among the Thugs (Norton, 1992), a highly personal nonfiction account of crowd violence and British soccer hooliganism. For The New Yorker, he has written about sweatshops, the singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, and chef Mario Batali. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1954, Bill Buford grew up in California and was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and at Kings College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Marshall Scholarship for his work on Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jessica Green, and their two sons.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140138573 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140138579 |
| Title | Granta 32 |
| Author | Bill Buford |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2008-01-07 |
| Number of pages | 252 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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