Women and Children First
- ISBN-10
- 0964561174
- ISBN-13
- 9780964561175
- Series
- Women and Children First
- Category
- Literature, Modern
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Granta
- Author
- Ian Jack
Description
How do we cope with the public and private disaster? Jasmina Tesanovic on being bombed in Belgrade -- "The Diary of a Political Idiot"; Ian Jack on good behavior aboard the Titanic; Joy Williams on the necessary death of her dog Hawk; Edward Said on the shame of his body; James Buchan inside Saddam's Iraq. Plus: Edmund White, and the debut of a novelist unknown when this issue was published -- Zadie Smith.
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