Publisher's Synopsis
This special issue of Granta is devoted to failure. It is a hymn to humiliation - unmitigated public humiliation. A writer who can't write. A child who can't spell. A champion who - like everyone else in this issue - always seems to lose. What kind of champion is that? A British one. You think you've got it bad? Is your father a heroin addict? Your mother a coke-head? Are you parents having sex with your best friends? Does your daddy deserve to die? Well, then: you're not a loser.
