Fülszöveg
GRÄNIÄ
55
A PAPERBACK MAGAZINE OF NEW WRITING
CHiLDREN
Research and development period: nine months.
Most common product faults: noise, mess, puking and mewling, irregulär sleeping and eating patterns, amorality and irresponsibility.
Economic productivité almost zero in the developed world.
Leading economic beneficiary of their desires: Walt Disney Inc.
Chief virtues according to their owners: joy, innocence, love, the perpétuation of the gene pool.
Chief dements according to non-owners: lawlessness, refusai to obey adult commands, their growing global numbers.
Ah, the darling little ones. According to UN estimâtes there are now 1.7 billion of them under the age of sixteen, nearly a third of the world's population. In thirty years there will be 2.1 billion. We will go on making them.
This issue of Granta describes the rearing, loving, loathing and fearing of them, and evokes what it was like to be that lost personality in a vanished time, a child.
Including Jayne Anne...
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Fülszöveg
GRÄNIÄ
55
A PAPERBACK MAGAZINE OF NEW WRITING
CHiLDREN
Research and development period: nine months.
Most common product faults: noise, mess, puking and mewling, irregulär sleeping and eating patterns, amorality and irresponsibility.
Economic productivité almost zero in the developed world.
Leading economic beneficiary of their desires: Walt Disney Inc.
Chief virtues according to their owners: joy, innocence, love, the perpétuation of the gene pool.
Chief dements according to non-owners: lawlessness, refusai to obey adult commands, their growing global numbers.
Ah, the darling little ones. According to UN estimâtes there are now 1.7 billion of them under the age of sixteen, nearly a third of the world's population. In thirty years there will be 2.1 billion. We will go on making them.
This issue of Granta describes the rearing, loving, loathing and fearing of them, and evokes what it was like to be that lost personality in a vanished time, a child.
Including Jayne Anne Phillips Allan Gurganus David Mamet Blake Morrison
And 'Blind Bitter Happiness': Adam Mars-Jones on the woman who became his mother.
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