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← Back to all issuesGranta 49: Money
Winter 1994
Get it, spend it. Save it, lose it. Risk it, win it. Lose it again, get it again. What is money? With Richard Rayner on becoming a thief; Steve Pyke’s portraits of the very rich; Jonathan Raban on the consequences of dreaming in America, and James Buchan on the psychology of money. Plus: short stories by Seamus Deane and John McGahern.
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Rich Rich Rich
Richard Rayner
’I was sweating, I was faint. The yellow on the walls was brilliant and burning.‘
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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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Ten Money Notes
Kevin Jackson
‘Despite money's protean nature, however, a lot of people persist in believing that it should stay much the same and are dismayed when it doesn't.’
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The Psychology of Money
James Buchan
’In my inferno of solitude, I thought there must be some reason why I was doing what I was doing.‘
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Bad Land
Jonathan Raban
‘What the bottom line always comes to is the old two a.m. cry: We can’t go on living like this.’
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My Low Korean Master
Chang-rae Lee
’I wondered, too, whether he was suffering inside, whether he sometimes cried, as I did, for reasons unknown.‘
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Fat
Helen Epstein
‘Fat Aids has become so common in Uganda, he told us, that if you say you are working on HIV people think you are a thief.’
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Playing the Game: The City
David Kynaston
‘It is not a question of how he came to grief, ‘but did he play the game?’’
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Playing the Game: The Takeover
Will Hutton
‘The first defender of Hanson-esque capitalism is the Conservative Party.’
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Memories of a Union Man
Sam Toperoff
‘It was not a graceful matter, making public your desire to have more money.’
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Creatures of the Earth
John McGahern
‘They alone among all the creatures of the earth would never have to go that way.’
