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← Back to all issuesGranta 89: The Factory
Spring 2005
Memoir, reportage and fiction including Isabel Hilton in a Chinese factory, Luc Sante on serving his time in the working class and a strip by Joe Sacco on a group of Chechen refugees
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Made in China
Isabel Hilton
‘Visiting a factory was one thing; working in one quite another.’
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A Job on the Line
Desmond Barry
‘The atmosphere in the house was thick with my father's depression.’
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Chocolate Empires
Andrew Martin
‘Q: When is a factory not a factory? A: When it’s a chocolate factory.’
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Lister’s Mill
Liz Jobey
‘The city has defied many plans for its regeneration and its centre is a dispiriting mess’
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Buckets of Blood
Tessa Hadley
‘I’m miscarrying a pregnancy, she said, when the spasm seemed to have passed.—It’s a fine mess.’
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Martin and Me
Thomas Healy
‘The Dobermann Club was run by a strong-voiced ex-army man who brooked no nonsense.’
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The Muse in the Cellar
James Lasdun
‘It seems to me that at the age of thirteen, I had already developed the cynicism of a seventy-year-old dictator.’
