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← Back to all issuesGranta 84: Over There: How America Sees the World
Winter 2003
This issue of Granta excavates histories both personal and political: repressed memories, unexplored lives, forgotten wars, secret careers.
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Over There
Various Contributors
Americans, speaking of foreign lands, often say, 'It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.'
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This is Centerville
James Buchan
‘In the imagination of strangers there is a small town in America which represents not just itself but the whole country‘.
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Man Walks Into A Bar
James Kelman
‘I had been living abroad for twelve years and I was gaun hame, maybe forever, maybe a month.‘
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Nothing But Ghosts
Judith Hermann
‘Afterwards Ellen liked to say she had once been to America but couldn't remember it very well.‘
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God’s Country
Luc Sante
‘About forty per cent of Americans describe themselves as 'born again', a designation that covers a great many separate creeds, even, these days, a certain strain of Roman Catholicism.‘
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Knowing French
Julian Barnes
‘We still miss Miss Winstanley very much. She was a lovely lady, and certainly the life and soul of the party around Pilcher House during her time here.‘
