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Autumn 2000
This issue of Granta is devoted to the kinks and twists of the human mind, and their treatments.
From this Issue
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Shrinks
Edmund White
‘Self-doubt, which is a cousin to self-hatred, became my constant companion.’
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The Emotions are not Skilled Workers
Elliot Perlman
‘He is wrong, though. You didn’t read poetry at all. He had wanted you to read poetry but you didn’t.’
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It Don’t Mean a Thing
Paul Auster
‘The single inhabitant of an asteroid that orbits around a tertiary moon of Pluto, visible only through the strongest telescope.’
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The Red Coral Bracelet
Judith Hermann
‘My first and only visit to a therapist cost me my red coral bracelet and my lover.’
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If I Dream I Have You
Justine Picardie
The savage, it is said, fails to distinguish the visions of sleep from the realities...
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Real Time
Amit Chaudhuri
‘He sighed; his wife never satisfied him when he needed her most; and quite probably it was the same story the other way round.’
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In Search of the Third Way
Roy Hattersley
‘The evidence suggests that the Third Way is a reactive rather than a creative force, a response rather than an original idea.’
