American Short Story, The Granta Book of the - Hardcover

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9780670845279: American Short Story, The Granta Book of the

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ISBN 10: 0670845272 ISBN 13: 9780670845279

Publisher: Penguin Adult HC/TR, 1992

An anthology of short stories selected to represent the best works of fiction in the United States features stories by O'Connor, Welty, Updike, Beattie, Barthelme, Tan, Leavitt, Coraghessan Boyle, Bowles, Penn Warren, and others.

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Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

Richard Ford's story collections include Rock Springs, Women Without Men, and A Multitude of Sins. His novel Independence Day was the first novel to win both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His latest novel, The Lay of the Land, was published in 2006.

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