Granta 11 by William Boyd
What is Milan Kundera's writing about? Sexual conquest and Russian tanks, arousal and totalitarian repression, infidelity and political betrayal, desire and the quiet tragedy of Europe. Kundera is a literary acrobat, a master of paradox and parody. An exile from communism and a critic of the West, a sceptic and irrepressible story-teller, an erotic hedonist whose life is politicized in the extreme, Kundera is as surprising and as unpredictable as the contemporary world he addresses. The current issue of Granta publishes, for the first time in Britain, a collection of Kundera's newest work, representing the range and power of an author whom more and more people have come to recognize as one of the most important writers to have emerged in the last ten years.
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 | 9780140073836 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140073833 |
| Title | Granta 11 |
| Author | William Boyd |
| Series | Granta: The Magazine Of New Writing |
| 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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