Richard Ford, who is among the finest of American novelists and short-story writers, edits and introduces this volume. First published by Granta Books in 1992, it became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century - an 'exemplary choice' in the words of the Washington Post - with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever and Raymond Carver (and forty others) demonstrating how much memorable power can lie in the briefest narration. Along with The New Granta Book of the American Short Story, this book constitutes an important…mehr
Richard Ford, who is among the finest of American novelists and short-story writers, edits and introduces this volume. First published by Granta Books in 1992, it became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century - an 'exemplary choice' in the words of the Washington Post - with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever and Raymond Carver (and forty others) demonstrating how much memorable power can lie in the briefest narration. Along with The New Granta Book of the American Short Story, this book constitutes an important reflection and judgement of recent American writing - as well as the superb pleasure yielded by the stories themselves.
A Day in the Open Jane Bowles A Distant Episode Paul Bowles Blackberry Winter Robert Penn Warren O City of Broken Dreams John Cheever The Lottery Shirley Jackson The View from the Balcony Wallace Stegner No Place for You, My Love Eudora Welty The Statue of Grace Harold Brodkey The Magic Barrel Bernard Malamud Good Country People Flannery O'Connor In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All Grace Paley Sonny's Blues James Baldwin Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time Peter Taylor Welcome to the Monkey House Kurt Vonnegut,Jr In the Zoo Jean Stafford A Poetics for Bullies Stanley Elkin Upon the Sweeping Flood Joyce Carol Oates The Indian Uprising Donald Barthelme In the Heart of the Heart of the Country William Gass A Solo Song: For Doc James Alan McPherson The Babysitter Robert Coover City Boy Leonard Michaels White Rat Gayl Jones Are These Actual Miles? Raymond Carver Train Joy Williams Fuge in A Minor William Kotzwinkle Here Come the Maples John Updike Pretty Ice Mary Robinson Testimony of Pilot Barry Hannah Greenwich Time Ann Beattie Lechery Jayne Anne Phillips Liars in Love Richard Yeats The Circling Hand Jamaica Kincaid Territory David Leavitt Bridging Max Apple Greasy Lake T. Coraghessan Boyle The Rich Brother Tobias Wolff American Express James Salter The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan The Fireman's Wife Richard Bausch Hot Ice Stuart Dybek You're Ugly, Too Lorrie Moore The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
A Day in the Open Jane Bowles A Distant Episode Paul Bowles Blackberry Winter Robert Penn Warren O City of Broken Dreams John Cheever The Lottery Shirley Jackson The View from the Balcony Wallace Stegner No Place for You, My Love Eudora Welty The Statue of Grace Harold Brodkey The Magic Barrel Bernard Malamud Good Country People Flannery O'Connor In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All Grace Paley Sonny's Blues James Baldwin Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time Peter Taylor Welcome to the Monkey House Kurt Vonnegut,Jr In the Zoo Jean Stafford A Poetics for Bullies Stanley Elkin Upon the Sweeping Flood Joyce Carol Oates The Indian Uprising Donald Barthelme In the Heart of the Heart of the Country William Gass A Solo Song: For Doc James Alan McPherson The Babysitter Robert Coover City Boy Leonard Michaels White Rat Gayl Jones Are These Actual Miles? Raymond Carver Train Joy Williams Fuge in A Minor William Kotzwinkle Here Come the Maples John Updike Pretty Ice Mary Robinson Testimony of Pilot Barry Hannah Greenwich Time Ann Beattie Lechery Jayne Anne Phillips Liars in Love Richard Yeats The Circling Hand Jamaica Kincaid Territory David Leavitt Bridging Max Apple Greasy Lake T. Coraghessan Boyle The Rich Brother Tobias Wolff American Express James Salter The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan The Fireman's Wife Richard Bausch Hot Ice Stuart Dybek You're Ugly, Too Lorrie Moore The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
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