The Granta Book of the American Short Story
Pages: 712
|Published: 7 Jan 1993
Description
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
