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(3.33) | 1 | Ten years after the success of the 1983 Best of Young British Novelists issue, four judges - A.S. Byatt, Salman Rushdie, bookseller John Mitchinson and Granta editor Bill Buford - set out to identify twenty more young and promising writers. The list introduced astonishing emerging talents: Alan Hollinghurst, Will Self, Hanif Kureishi, A.L. Kennedy and many more. A widely varied anthology including novel extracts and stories that showcase a generation of writers coming into its own.… (more) |
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▾Book descriptions Ten years after the success of the 1983 Best of Young British Novelists issue, four judges - A.S. Byatt, Salman Rushdie, bookseller John Mitchinson and Granta editor Bill Buford - set out to identify twenty more young and promising writers. The list introduced astonishing emerging talents: Alan Hollinghurst, Will Self, Hanif Kureishi, A.L. Kennedy and many more. A widely varied anthology including novel extracts and stories that showcase a generation of writers coming into its own. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains: - Under ice / Iain Banks
- The brass bar / Louis de Bernières
- Born again / Anne Billson
- Listed for trial / Tibor Fischer
- Lessons in inhaling / Esther Freud
- Sharps and flats / Alan Hollinghurst
- The gourmet / Kazuo Ishiguro
- Failing to fall / A. L. Kennedy
- Reference points / Philip Kerr
- Eight arms to hold you / Hanif Kureishi
- Letters from Wellfleet / Adam Lively
- Neighbours / Adam Mars-Jones
- The many colours of blood / Candia McWilliam
- A Bosnian alphabet / Lawrence Norfolk
- A bizarre courtship / Ben Okri
- West / Caryl Phillips
- Scale / Will Self
- Wavery's last post / Nicholas Shakespeare
- Heavy weather / Helen Simpson
- The poetics of sex / Jeanette Winterson
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Editors included Salman Rushdie and A.S. Byatt.
However, the problem with this concept is that great novelists don't tend to be great short-story writers. Many of the writers included have simply contributed excerpts from longer works, which tend to feel unfinished and abrupt. I was particularly disappointed in the Iain Banks selection - a brief snippet from 'Complicity,' which I've already read.
In the introduction, Granta's editor notes that a collection like this is really an advertisement to get people to buy novels. (It also served to make me glad, yet again, that I opted not to work in publishing, but that's another issue). Most of the selections weren't intriguing enough to get me to seek out a book - but Anne Billson's story may be an exception. I also liked Louis de Bernières charming-if-sentimental, seemingly autobiographical piece, and the Kazuo Ishiguro screenplay made the whole thing worthwhile.
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