Ian Hamilton on Granta.com
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The Online Edition
Sohoitis
Ian Hamilton
What brings me to this place, this pass? It’s four-fifteen in the afternoon on Charlotte...
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The Online Edition
The Trouble with Money
Ian Hamilton
‘Did you know that a hundred-gram jar of Nescafe filled with 1p coins buys two packets of Benson and Hedges?’
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Issue 45
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Newcastle
Ian Hamilton
‘My first sighting of Paul Gascoigne was in 1987, when he was playing for Newcastle.’
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Issue 45
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World Cup Hero
Ian Hamilton
‘The antitheses had been there all along but in July 1990, after Gascoigne’s World Cup triumph, they were given a new formulation.’
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Don’t Cry for Gazza
Ian Hamilton
‘‘Who is Gazza?’ asked Mr Justice Harman in the High Court in September 1990.’
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Actively Portly
Ian Hamilton
‘When Ian Rush was asked to explain his failure to score goals for Juventus he replied that being in Italy was like being in a foreign country.’
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Finally Fit
Ian Hamilton
‘By eight-thirty, the rain was sheeting down, and the thunder and lightning seemed to be directly overhead. The police dogs around the track began to bark. Were lions whelping in the street? Had Gazza been too saucy with the gods?’
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Issue 45
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Il Commento Gastrico
Ian Hamilton
‘In the old days, when a British star went to Italy, he disappeared.’
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Portly Again?
Ian Hamilton
‘English football’s most precocious and precious talent is evaporating into the skies over Italy like the fading flares of a half-spent Roman candle.’
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A Colossal Hoard
Ian Hamilton
‘For James Boswell, admiration was a busy, intimate affair.’
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J. D. Salinger versus Random House, Inc.
Ian Hamilton
‘In New York, Salinger was required to formalize his accusations. In his affidavit, he described himself as an “author of some renown” who had “elected, for personal reasons, to leave the public spotlight entirely”.’
