Word: granta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Information centers around Richard Tull, a ridiculously obscure, soon-to-be ex-novelist. Richard is of that most quintessentially English brand of heroes: he is a loser. (In fact, the first installations of Amis' novel appeared in an issue of Granta magazine called "Losers.") To some extent, the author embodies, in Richard the stereotypical English hatred of success. His (anti) hero is an unmitigated failure whose humiliations Amis delights in recounting...
...strange epiphany for an American who went to Britain as a scholar at Cambridge and stayed on to revive and edit the successful literary magazine Granta. Buford's sojourn among the thugs began on an ordinary Saturday in 1982 after returning home in the company of berserk soccer fans bent on tearing $ apart their train. To find out "why young males in England were rioting every Saturday," he joined the drunken legions of Daft Donalds, Barmy Bernies and Steamin' Sammys as they rampaged around Europe like latter-day Storm Troopers, trashing cities and forcing hooligan into the vocabulary of much...