Australia , Granta 70 the Magazine of New Writing by Ian, Jack -editormoore, David - Summer 2000

London + New York Usa: Granta Books. As New Summer 2000. Periodical. Marfree, acidfree superclean #70; no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Subscription mailer torn. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. ; Granta Magazine Series; 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches; 352 pages; \nSynopsis\nAustralia is an improbable country. \nFundamentally-naturally-nowhere else is like it. \nSuperficially-suburbanly-it could be one stop further down a long extension of the London underground or the New York subway. \nIs Australia a remote chink of the northern, western world or a part of Asia? Is it a new version of the USA with European manners ('the new California') , or a second-hand version of Europe with American ones? How does it accommodate the fate of its original human inhabitants, or propose a decent future for them? Why is its head of state still the British queen? In Australia, two universal, modern problems are vividly posed. Who are we? What shall we become? \n\nIn a year that sees the Sydney Olympics in September, and the hundredth anniversary of Australian nationhood three months later, this special 352-page issue of Granta celebrates Australia, as it was and is, in new fiction, reportage, memoir and photography. With: \n\nMurray Bail\nGeorgia Blain\nPolly Borland\nPeter Carey\nPeter Conrad\nRobyn Davidson\nKate Grenville\nHoward Jacobson\nThomas Keneally\nDavid Malouf\nDavid Moore\nFrank Moorhouse\nLes Murray\nBen Rice\nPaul Toohey\nTim Winton .