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← Back to all issuesGranta 91: Wish You Were Here
Autumn 2005
This issue includes Simon Gray in Barbados, rocking in his pram, smoking, remembering Alan Bates; Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on his father’s irritating dreams of human perfection; Ismail Kadare at the Great Wall of China (and Life); plus bulletins on our changing climate.
From this Issue
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Family Pictures
Liz Jobey & Robin Grierson
‘Photography always reveals truths about the relationship between the photographer and the person being photographed.’
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White Sands
Geoff Dyer
‘Now that we were out of danger it seemed possible that there had never been any danger.’
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The Ship at Anchor
Frederic Tuten
‘Those words made me wonder why I ever wanted to be an artist, why I ever wanted to live, though I never thought I wanted to die.’
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The Weather Where We Are
Various Contributors
‘Ice gets into the sea in two ways: it falls in from calving glaciers, or it forms during the winter. Both kinds are spectacular.’
