A01=Ian Jack
Author_Ian Jack
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Category=DNT
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Product details
- ISBN 9780903141697
- Weight: 350g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Granta goes to the movies. Featuring John Fowles on the making of 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' and DM Thomas on the not-making of 'The White Hotel', Nik Cohn on his early involvement with the porn industry, Thomas Keneally on finding Schindler's list, Roger Lewis on Peter Sellers, Gaby Wood on Lana Turner, Pankaj Mishra in Bombay, Ian Jack on the Roxy, the Rialto, the Ritz and the Regal, Andrew O'Hagan on two years in the dark as a movie critic and Maarten 'T Hart on coping with Werner Herzog and his ten thousand rats. Plus Art by film directors: The drawings, storyboards and photographs of Cocteau, Fellini, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Scorsese and many more...And new fiction by Tessa Hadley and Jim Lewis and John Boorman.
Ian Jack edited Granta from 1995 to 2007, having previously edited the Independent on Sunday. He has written on many subjects, including the Titanic, Kathleen Ferrier, the Hatfield train crash and the three members of the IRA active-service unit who were killed on Gibraltar. He is the editor of The Granta Book of Reportage and The Granta Book of India, and the author of a collection of journalism, The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain. He is working, not very quickly, on a book about the River Clyde.
