Granta 98 : The Deep End Condition:Like New the arsenal is vast

the arsenal is vast

He took for his subject French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality

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Granta 98 : The Deep End Condition:Like New the arsenal is vastIn the deep end: struggling maybe, but waving not drowning. This issue of Granta contains writing from people whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survival. Featuring Diana Athill, the renowned author of Stet, on the lessons of old age, and interviews with soldiers returning from Iraq by Craig Taylor. Plus new fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Javier Cercas, Gerard Donovan, Richard Ford, Tessa Hadley, Jackie Kay,