‘For the first time in all the years you had known her, she sounded deranged.’
Your birthday has come and gone. Sixty-four years old now, inching ever closer to senior citizenship, to the days of Medicare and Social Security benefits, to a time when more and more of your friends will have left you. So many of them are gone already – but just wait for the deluge that is comin…
‘In 1973 I was offered a job as caretaker of a farmhouse in the south of France.‘
‘You can’t remember the precise moment when you understood that you were a Jew.’
‘Though they are friends, they had not read and discussed their work in public together for over twenty years before taking to the stage this week, at Barnes & Noble, Union Square, New York, for the main event of Granta’s Horror issue.’
Granta 106, the New Fiction Special, includes ‘Invisible’, an extract from Paul Auster’s novel of...
‘For the first time in all the years you had known her, she sounded deranged.’
