(P/B) THE GRANTA BOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY (VOLUME 1)

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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. (From the publisher)

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Introduction - Richard Ford
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 State 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 Gates
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
Fugue in A Minor - William Kotzwinkle
Here Come the Maples - John Updike
Pretty Ice - Mary Robison
Testimony of Pilot - Barry Hannah
Greenwich Time - Ann Beattie
Lechery - Jayne Anne Phillips
Liars in Love - Richard Yates
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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