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Bill Buford
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Granta 36: Vargas Llosa for President (Granta (Viking)) |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Single Issue Magazine |
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256 |
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1991-06 |
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0140152083 |
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Granta Publications Ltd. |
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0.7 pounds |
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5.75 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches |
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1st |
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2 Cheryl (USA: OR), rwnye (USA: MI) |
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2 Jillian (USA: AZ), IrishPenJen (United Kingdom) |
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Product Description
This is a collection of short stories that includes "Vargas Llosa for President", as well as stories from Steiner Novella, Graham Swift, T. Coraghessan Boyle's "Sitting on Top of the World" and Sergio Ramirez's "The Rise and Fall of the Sandinistas".
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Robert (USA: CA) (2023/01/04):
Half of the entries in this edition of Granta deal with Latin America, marking a change from the magazine's usual Eurocentric focus. The main pieces document Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa's unsuccessful campaign for President of Peru in 1989. The two following articles give insight into the campaign from his son, Alvaro, who was the Press Officer, and Mark Malloch Brown, a campaign strategy consultant from a US public relations firm. All in all, these three voices provide a unique look into the campaign.
The fiction ranges from a nearly unreadable story about the personal consequences of the fall of communism in Europe in the late 1980s, to a sterling story by T. C. Boyle about a resourceful woman working alone in a firewatch tower in the middle of the wilderness who has to decide what to do about a man who shows up with romantic intentions.
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