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Granta 68: Love Stories

by Ian Jack

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What happens when the people we are forbidden to want turn out to be those we can't resist? What does sex mean to an Orangeman in Northern Ireland who feels happier dressed as a woman? How can love be made to work between a Palestinian and a Jew?

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This issue of Granta is dedicated to love, or more often the lack of it, the loss of it, and the search for it.

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Canonical title: Granta 68: Love Stories

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Genre: Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
LCC: PN2 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Periodicals
BISAC: FIC FICTION Anthologies (multiple authors)
SOC SOCIAL SCIENCE General

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
ISBNs: 2
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Published: 1999
Genre: Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 813
LCC: PN2

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