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An edition of Best of Young British Novelists (1999)

Best of Young British Novelists

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A PAPERBACK MAGAZINE OF NEW WRITING

BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS
Volume One (1983)

Who were the best young British novelists ten years ago? And who among them have emerged as the important writers of today?

This classic issue of Granta was inspired by the original campaign for the Best Young British Novelists. One of the most popular issues of the magazine (reprinted six times), it collects new fiction from the twenty writers, judged in 1983, to be the best of their generation:

Martin Amis
Pat Barker
Julian Barnes
Ursula Bentley
William Boyd
Buchi Emecheta
Maggie Gee
Kazuo Ishiguro
Alad Judd
Adam Mars-Jones
Ian McEwan
Shiva Naipaul
Philip Norman
Christopher Priest
Salman Rushdie
Lisa St Aubin de Teran
Clive Sinclair
Graham Swift
Rose Tremain
A.N. Wilson

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Granta Publications Ltd.
Language
English
Pages
320

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Table of Contents

Martin Amis. Money
Page 5
Pat Barker. Blow Your House Down
Page 47
Julian Barnes. Emma Bovary's Eyes
Page 59
Ursula Bentley. Foreign Buddies
Page 69
William Boyd. Extracts from the Journal of Flying Officer J
Page 89
Buchi Emecheta. Head Above Water
Page 99
Maggie Gee. Rose on the broken
Page 107
Kazuo Ishiguro. Summer after the War
Page 119
Alan Judd. Obsessions
Page 139
Adam Mars-Jones. Trout Day by Pumpkin Light
Page 147
Ian McEwan. The Writing of "Or Shall We Die?"
Page 159
Shiva Naipaul. The Fortune-Teller
Page 173
Philip Norman. Ol' Black Rock
Page 185
Christopher Priest. The Miraculous Cairn
Page 199
Salman Rushdie. The Golden Bough
Page 247
Lisa St Aubin de Teran. The Five of Us
Page 253
Clive Sinclair. Antics
Page 275
Graham Swift. About the Eel
Page 287
Rose Tremain. My Wife is a White Russian
Page 297
A. N. Wilson. Scandal
Page 307

Edition Notes

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England

Contributors

Editor
Bill Buford

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
320
Dimensions
8.2 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
Weight
13.6 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9303298M
ISBN 10
0140140824
ISBN 13
9780140140828
OCLC/WorldCat
312276148
dewey_decimal_classification_(ddc)
813
Library Thing
57400
Goodreads
33464

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July 24, 2011 Edited by Brooke Ali Added DDC
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