The Granta Book of the Contemporary American Short Story

by RichardFord (Editor)

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  1993

  $3.29

  This extraordinary anthology represents Ford's personal vision of the best works of short fiction published in the U.S. in his lifetime and features authors ranging from Paul Bowles, Flannery O'Connor, and James Baldwin to contemporary writers such as Amy Tan, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and David Leavitt.

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  2008

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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 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 Granta Book of the American Short Story: Volume 2 , this book constitutes an important reflection and judgment of recent American writing - as well as the superb pleasure yielded by the stories themselves.

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.29

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  Paperback
  2008

  $13.11

  Richard Ford, who is among the finest of American novelists and short story writers, edits and introduces this volume. First published by Granta 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 Granta Book of the American Short Story: Volume 2 , this book constitutes an important reflection and judgment of recent American writing - as well as the superb pleasure yielded by the stories themselves.