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Granta 29: New World

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Is it possible, by travelling to a new world, to become a new person? Jonathan Raban crossed the Atlantic by ship and, like the immigrants before him, made for America in search of a new language, a new name, a new identity. Plus: Rian Malan, Roger Garfitt, Josef Skvorecky, Paul Theroux, Patricia Highsmith, Tim O’Brien, and Patrick McGrath’s ‘A Boy’s Broadmoor’.

Articles discuss exile, train travel, South Africa, Beirut, and Colombia, and are accompanied by photographs.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Release: November 01, 1989

ISBN 13: 9780140128635

Granta 29: New World

0/5 ( ratings)

Is it possible, by travelling to a new world, to become a new person? Jonathan Raban crossed the Atlantic by ship and, like the immigrants before him, made for America in search of a new language, a new name, a new identity. Plus: Rian Malan, Roger Garfitt, Josef Skvorecky, Paul Theroux, Patricia Highsmith, Tim O’Brien, and Patrick McGrath’s ‘A Boy’s Broadmoor’.

Articles discuss exile, train travel, South Africa, Beirut, and Colombia, and are accompanied by photographs.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Release: November 01, 1989

ISBN 13: 9780140128635

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