Book DescriptionThe USA is the world's newest and greatest empire And, some would say, the world's most insular state as well as the most powerful, never troubling to correct its ignorance of the people and places beyond its borders Is it a slander? In this issue of Granta, American writers describe their encounters abroad and how they were affected ожъзв by them, while, in reportage and fiction, outsiders to America come upon the strangeness of the place itself Including: James Buchan in Americas Hometown Edmund White meets his first Europeans Paul Theroux as a sexual prisoner in Africa Nell Freudenberger makes a mistake in Laos Luc Sante gets that old-time religion James Kelman in trouble with the natives With recollections and forecasts from Eric Schlosser, A M Homes, Chris Hedges, Paula Fox, Gary Shteyngart, Paul Fussell, Adam Hochschild, J Robert Lennon, Studs Terkel, Jacki Lyden, Chalmers Johnson and many more Plus surprising new maps of America by Martin Rowson, a photographic essay by Anthony Suau and new stories by Judith Hermann and Julian Barnes.  Основная2003 г 254 стр ISBN 1929001142.