by Bill Buford · Granta Publications · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140123579
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«Granta 27: Death» is the literary anthology edited by Bill Buford, published by Granta Publications in paperback (256 pages, in English).
This issue of Granta brings together fourteen writers and photographers around death as the end of every story: stories and essays by John Gregory Dunne, Adam Mars-Jones, Mary McCarthy, Edmund White, Louise Erdrich, Michael Ignatieff and John Treherne, along with the unsettling death masks photographed by Rudolph Schäfer.
Volume 27 of the literary magazine Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, published in 1989.
Recommended for readers of essays and short fiction seeking a literary and personal approach to death.
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."
