The Granta Book of the American Short Story

By (author): "James Baldwin, Mary Robison, Joyce Carol Oates, Stanley Elkin, Jean Stafford, Kurt Vonnegut, Peter Taylor, Harold Brodkey, Eudora Welty, Wallace Stegner, Shirley Jackson, John Cheever, Tim O'Brien, Lorrie Moore, Stuart Dybek, Richard Bausch, Amy Tan, Robert Penn Warr"
Genres:Fiction books  Classics books  Anthologies books  Short Stories books  Americana books  
Publish Date: January 7th 1993
The Granta Book of the American Short Story
ISBN1862071098
ISBN139781862071094
AsinThe Granta Book of the American Short Story
Original titleThe Granta Book of the American Short Story, Volume One
SeriesThe Granta Book of the American Short Story #1
The Granta Book of the American Short Story is a selection of the best works of American short fiction published in the last 50 years. Stories featured here include “A Day in the Open” by Jane Bowles; “Blackberry Winter” by Robert Penn Warren; “O City of Broken Dreams” by John Cheever; “The Magic Barrel” by Bernard Malamud; “In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All” by Grace Paley; “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin; “Are These Actual Miles?” by Raymond Carver; and “You’re Ugly, Too” by Lorrie Moore. “Ford’s choice of stories is exemplary ... there’s wonderful reading here.” — The Washington Post