LAST GASPS Thoughts about Alan while waiting for Harold, by Simon Gray The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries returns to print with a tender, affecting, and of course funny account of his friendship with Alan Bates, written as he waits in Barbados for Harold Pinter to turn up. PLUS: Said Sayrafiezadeh on the perils of having a socialist for a father Simon Garfield on his obsession with faulty postage stamps Wayne McLennan on the Australian outback's last boxing nomads. And Margaret Atwood, James Hamilton-Paterson, James Lasdun, Orhan Pamuk, Maarten 't Hart and Tim Winton on our changing weather. With new fiction by Frederic Tuten and Gllad Evron.
| ISBN: | 9780903141802 |
| Publication date: | 3rd October 2005 |
| Author: | Ian Jack |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Granta: The Magazine of New Writing |
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Anthologies: general |