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← Back to all issuesGranta 37: The Family
Autumn 1991
The controversial issue about the most important, powerful, and potentially destructive relationship of our lives. Contributors include Mikal Gilmore on his brother Gary, the murderer; Sappho Durrell on her father, the novelist. Plus: William Wharton, Geoffrey Wolff, Seamus Deane, Mona Simpson, Harold Pinter, and Giorgio Pressburger.
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Journals and Letters
Sappho Durrell
‘I can’t carry anyone else’s fears; I have enough to contend with of my own.’
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Field Burning
William Wharton
‘I thought after what had happened to us in the past twenty-four hours I’d never be scared to die again, but I am.’
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Alphabet City
Geoffrey Biddle
‘When I first worked here, the neighbourhood was not called Alphabet City. It was the Puerto Rican part of the Lower East Side and the Puerto Ricans called it Loisaida, low-ee-SIGH-da, a new York-Puerto Rican version of Lower East Side.’
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The Law of White Spaces
Giorgio Pressburger
‘It was beginning to seem as if his brother’s fate depended on him, on his ability, or lack of it, to learn the prayer for the dead.’
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Mothers, Daughters, Sons
Markéta Luskačová
Markéta Luskačová’s photographs of women and children for Granta 37: The Family.
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Waterway
Geoffrey Wolff
‘You would not guess looking into my son's bedroom at home that Blackwing’s ice box would have been scrubbed, but it had been scrubbed.’
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The New World Order
Harold Pinter
‘He has little idea of what we’re about to do to his wife.’
