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Bezig met laden... Granta 41: Biographydoor Bill Buford (Redacteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Featured in this collection mostly of memoirs and portaits is an excerpt from an unpublished Saul Bellow novel from the 1950s, Memoir of a Bootlegger's Son , set in Jewish Montreal, where the language was "a French-Russian-Hebrew-British Yiddish." Bellow's biographer James Atlas offers an illuminating essay on the Nobel laureate's early career in Chicago and New York. Most other selections successfully avoid standard essay forms. Gabriel Garcia Marquez recalls Frau Frida, a Colombian he met in Vienna whose profession was prophecy. Blake Morrison movingly assesses the life of his dissembling father in a series of episodes. Louise Erdrich, surveying the 1892 rolls of a North Dakota Indian reservation, meditates on a time when "women wore names that told us who they were." Luc Sante, rooting among New York police photo archives, annotates murder scenes from the years 1914-1918. Particularly thoughtful is Lorna Sage's memoir of novelist Angela Carter, who survived an anorexic youth and a desperate marriage to find herself in Japan and create work that was "unclassifiable in terms of British fiction." geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The highlighted piece is a fragment of a novel Saul Bellow started about his own family but abandoned. It's accompanied by his biographer's accounting of Bellow's life up until he became a successful writer. In other articles by Louise Erdrich and Luc Sante, we see how the lives of people outside the limelight, such as Native Americans and immigrants, are a bit harder to document. ( )