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Cover of Freeman's Arrival

Freeman's Arrival

✍ Scribed by Freeman, John (editor)


Book ID
109007902
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Year
2015
Tongue
ar-SA
Weight
4 MB
Series
Freeman's 1
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780802124418

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


We live today in constant motion, traveling distances rapidly, small ones daily, arriving in new states. In this inaugural edition of Freeman's , a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together the best new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about that electrifying moment when we arrive.
Strange encounters abound. David Mitchell meets a ghost in Hiroshima Prefecture; Lydia Davis recounts her travels in the exotic territory of the Norwegian language; and in a Dave Eggers story, an elderly gentleman cannot remember why he brought a fork to a wedding.
End points often turn out to be new beginnings. Louise Erdrich visits a Native American cemetery that celebrates the next journey, and in a Haruki Murakami story, an aging actor arrives back in his true self after performing a role, discovering he has changed, becoming a new person.
Featuring startling new fiction by Laura van den Berg, Helen Simpson, and...


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