Bratpackers
Richard Lloyd Parry: Alex Garland, 15 October 1998
“... and incurious nature of the backpackers. Alex Garland has written of his admiration for Kazuo Ishiguro (some of the dialogue in The Beach is modelled on An Artist of the Floating World), and he often appears to be emulating Ishiguro’s trick of exposing his narrators despite themselves. Garland’s story ... ”