Children: Blind Bitter Happiness

Ian Jack

Granta, 1996 - Family & Relationships - 256 pages

What was it like to be that lost personality in a vanished time, a child? This issue describes the rearing, loving, loathing, and fearing of children, and includes some remarkable evocations of being a child. Jayne Anne Phillips, Blake Morrison, Adam Mars-Jones, David Mamet, Todd McEwen, Allan Gurganus, Leila Berg, and more.

Contents

• MOTHERING: 7
• FATHERING: 77
• BEING: 91

About the author

Ian Jack is professor of English literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, a position he has held since 1976. He was born in 1923 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and graduated from the University of Edinburgh with first class honors in 1946. In 1949, he received a D.Phil. from Merton College, Oxford University. His studies of English literature include Augustan Satire: Intention and Idiom in English Poetry, 1660-1750; The Poet and his Audience; and The Poetical Works of Robert Browning.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Children: Blind Bitter Happiness; Volume 55 of Granta : the paperback magazine of new writing; Volume 55 of Granta Series; The Magazine of New Writing Series
• Editor: Ian Jack
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Granta, 1996
• ISBN: 0903141027, 9780903141024
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Parenting / General; Literary Collections / General; Social Science / Children's Studies