Granta 59: France, the Outsider. [Autumn 1997].

Paperback. 8vo. 254pp. Pictorial stiff card wraps. With b/w photos. Notes on Contributors.

A quarterly magazine of new writing, this issue focusing on an anxious France at the end of the millennium as it searches for a new idea of itself.

Contents: Editorial by Ian Jack; Liberté: "We Are the Kings" by Michel Houellebecq; "A Different Country" by John Davies; "A Sentence of Love" by Assia Djebar; Égalité: "Fort-de-France" by David Macey; "The Rat" by Patrick Chamoiseau; "Night in the Afternoon" by Caroline Lamarche; Fraternité: "Lingua Franca" by Luc Sante; "Whooah... Pizza!" by Pierre Merle; "Agnès" by René Belletto; "The Farm at Le Garet" by Raymond Depardon; Elsewhere: "Stephen Lawrence" by Brian Cathcart; "Don't Forsake Me" by Ivan Klíma; "Love of the World" by John McGahern; "A Note on Shakespeare" by Harold Pinter.

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