Granta 25: Murder

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #25

by Bill Buford (Editor)

Martin Amis's tale of Nicola Six, a girl who's been trouble all her life. Plus: 'Gibraltar', Ian Jack's award-winning investigation into the Death on the Rock, Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Todd McEwen, John Berger, Angela Carter, and Don DeLillo.

Genres: Fiction, Essays, Anthologies

252 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

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

[Brian]

Granta 25: The Murderee by Martin Amis (1989)

[anna marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

From this collection I read Angela Carter's rewriting/imagining of John Fforde's play Tis Pity She's a Whore
{read in april, 2016}

[John Ledingham · Rating 3 out of 5]

found it in a thrift store read this in the work truck and kinda liked it