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Granta 51
Big Men
1995
First Published
3.85
Average Rating
254
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Big as in substantial, powerful, famous; men as in weak, wicked, and notorious. Gitta Sereny on Albert Speer, the tyrant as survivor; Caroline Alexander on the classical tyrant, Hastings Banda; Andrea Ashworth on the tyrant in the next room, her stepfather. Blake Morrison considers failing manhood, John Sweeney investigates the myth and mystery of Hitler’s missing testicle, and Douglas Brooker photographs the young – some may say strange – women of L.A. Contents: Andrea Ashworth - Our Mother’s New Man Will Hobson - Dear Adolf John Sweeney - Hitler and the Billygoat Caroline Alexander - Plato Speaks Blake Morrison - Bicycle Thieves Douglas Brooker - LA Women Lindsey Hilsum - Where is Kigali? Edward Blishen - Trouble at the Waterworks Claire Messud - The Professor’s History Clive Sinclair - The Lady with the Laptop Harold Pinter - Girls

Avg Rating
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Author

Bill Buford
Bill Buford
Author · 34 books

Bill Buford is an American author and journalist. Buford 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.

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