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← Back to all issuesGranta 82: Life’s Like That
Summer 2003
An anthology of private memory, including Lynn Barber on her close encounter with bygamy, and Simon Gray on absent friends. Plus new fiction from J. Robert Lennon and Nell Freudenberger.
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The Smoking Diaries
Simon Gray
‘The inside of my head feels soft and thoughtless, with a muzzy ache going round its rim.’
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Five Cats and Three Women
J. Robert Lennon
‘While he didn't mind (not much anyway) being responsible for the death of one cat, his cat, he did not feel good shouldering the death of four cats.’
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Termite’s Birthday, 1959
Jayne Anne Phillips
‘It's like by the time he was born there was too much to know.’
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The Tutor
Nell Freudenberger
‘He hated the idea of learning words from a list; it was like taking vitamin supplements in place of eating.’
