All The Wrong Places | Granta

  • Published: 01/08/2005
  • ISBN: 9781862077836
  • 130x20mm
  • 288 pages

All The Wrong Places

James Fenton

Reportage resists easy definition and comes in many forms – travel essay, narrative history, autobiography – but at its finest it reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know. This new series, hailed as ‘a wonderful idea’ by Don DeLillo, both restores to print and introduces for the first time some of the greatest works of the genre. This is a visceral, on-the-spot, and unforgettable account of the fall of Saigon, war-ravaged Cambodia, and the Philippines in the midst of revolution from James Fenton, the right man in the wrong place in dangerous times.

The Author

JAMES FENTON was born in Lincoln and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a columnist for the Guardian. He lives in England.

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Essays & Memoir | Granta 15

The Fall of Saigon

James Fenton

‘I wanted to see a communist victory, which I presumed to be inevitable. I wanted to see the fall of a city.’

Essays & Memoir | Granta 15

On Buying a Clavichord

James Fenton

‘Your clavichord breathes as sweetly as your heart.’

Art & Photography | Granta 24

Kwangju and After

James Fenton

‘Some people said they were not ‘with’ the students. They were not in favour of the use of arms. But they were of one voice in saying that the students were their sons, and that if the army came in the students would be put to death. That was why they kept saying: “Tell the truth about us.”’