Granta 36; Mario Vargas Llosa for President - Softcover

Mario Vargas Llosa; T Coraghessan Boyle; Martin Amis; Graham Swift; Sergio Ramirez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140152067 ISBN 13: 9780140152067

Publisher: Granta Magazine, 2008

Synopsis

The novelist's personal account of his campaign for the presidency of Peru. Plus: Alvaro Vargas Llosa as his father's press officer, Sergio Ramirez on the end of the Sandinistas, George Steiner on the end of the dream of communism, Graham Swift, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow (part three). In this issue Mario Vargas Llosa: A Fish Out of Water Alvaro Vargas Llosa: The Press Officer Mark Malloch Brown: The Consultant Sergio Ramirez: Election Night in Nicaragua George Steiner: Proofs Martin Amis: Time's Arrow (Part Three): The Conclusion T. Coraghessan Boyle: Sitting on Top of the World Graham Swift: Plastic David Grossman: Cairo

About this title

Synopsis:

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".

About the Author:

John Freeman's criticism has appeared in the Guardian, The New York Times, and The Sydney Morning Herald.Between 2006 and 2008, he served as president of the National Book Critics Circle. His first book, The Tyranny of E-Mail, was published in 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Magazine
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0140152067
• ISBN 13: 9780140152067
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Bill Buford