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← Back to all issuesGranta 58: Ambition
Summer 1997
The things we desire – love, money, wisdom, power – have not changed since the world began, but it seems we want more of them, and now. Doris Lessing wanted to live, love, and write on her own terms; Paul Auster wanted to make his fortune via a card game; Brian MacKinnon wanted to be a doctor and became a tissue of lies. Plus: J. M. Coetzee and Joyce Carol Oates.
From this Issue
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The Money Chronicles
Paul Auster
‘I went through a period of several years when everything I touched turned to failure.’
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Make Him Sing
J.M. Coetzee
‘He expects astonishment and sympathy; instead he gets mirth.’
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The Josser
Nell Stroud
‘When I was ten we moved to the country, to a village called Minety.’
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Lover
Joyce Carol Oates
‘You won't know me, won't see my face. Unless you see my face. And then it will be too late.’
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The Vulgar Soul
John Biguenet
‘She got skinny and became a clairvoyant. And she wasn't even a stigmatic.’
