Granta 44: The Last Place on Earth

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #44

by Bill Buford (Editor)

A collection of new writing. This edition features a fable-like account of the extraordinary things discovered about death by Tracy Kidder during the year he spent as an observer in a nursing home.

Genres: Fiction

252 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1993

About the author

William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism".

Reviews

[Victoria & David Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Superlative selections: from the story of Pol Pot's sister-in-law to Paul Auster and Bruce Chatwin, Tracy Kidder, Nadine Gordimer, T C Boyle, Tobias Wolff. I'm currently reading / rereading all 162 issues and this is among the very best.

[George Mavronisiotis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Must read: Ivan Klima/ Childhood in Terezin
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