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← Back to all issuesGranta 94: On the Road Again
Summer 2006
Where travel writing went next with fiction from Michel Faber and Tessa Hadley, Tim Parks on commuting in Italy and James Hamilton-Paterson on the end of travel.
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We Went to Saigon
Tia Wallman
‘I thought that this must be the sort of plane that crashes. What were a few more dead, travelling to the city of the dead?’
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Bye-Bye Natalia
Michel Faber
‘Natalia picks at the frayed black lace of her dress while the photograph of her American penpal loads into the computer.’
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Cary Grant’s Suit
Todd McEwen
‘North by Northwest isn't a film about what happens to Cary Grant, it's about what happens to his suit.’
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Trenitalia
Tim Parks
‘It was explained to me that in Italy a formality is a sort of dormant volcano.’
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Lavande
Ann Beattie
‘It seemed impossible, but probably everyone marries thinking such a thing impossible.’
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The End of Travel
James Hamilton-Paterson
‘The more we flock to view the disappearing glaciers, the faster they will vanish.’
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Homage to Mount Desert Island
Mark Haworth-Booth
‘A cow was on the wrong side of the fence on Crooked Road on May 26.’
