| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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| Descript |
2v. |
| Note |
Originally published: 2007 under the title "The new Granta book of the American short story". |
| Contents |
v.1: 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 Oates -- The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme -- In the heart of the heart of the country / William Glass -- 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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v.2: Ladies in Spring / Eudora Welty -- Reunion / John Cheever -- Ship Island : the story of a mermaid / Elizabeth Spencer -- Friends / Grace Paley -- The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor -- Oh, Joseph, I'm so tired / Richard Yates -- Me and Miss Mandible / Donald Barthelme -- Natural color / John Updike -- The half-skinned steer / Annie Proulx -- Killings / Andre Dubus -- Helping / Robert Stone -- Errand / Raymond Carver -- Where is here? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- The Palatski Man / Stuart Dybek -- Get some young / Barry Hannah -- The farm / Joy Williams -- Mr. Green / Robert Olen Butler -- The pugilist at rest / Thom Jones -- Ancient history / Richard Bausch -- Firelight / Tobias Wolff -- The custodian / Deborah Eisenberg -- The rabbit hole as likely explanation / Ann Beattie -- The miracle at Ballinspittle / T.C. Boyle -- Work / Denis Johnson -- Nothing to ask for / Dennis McFarland -- Grit / Tom Franklin -- A new man / Edward P. Jones -- Blue boy / Kevin Canty -- Anthropology / Andrea Lee -- The plague of doves / Louise Erdrich -- A romantic weekend / Mary Gaitskill -- Two dogs / Steve Yarbrough -- People like that are the only people here : canonical babbling in Peed Onk / Lorrie Moore -- CivilWarLand in bad decline / George Saunders -- Issues I dealt with in therapy / Matthew Klam -- The toughest Indian in the world / Sherman Alexie -- A temporary matter / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Aurora / Junot Díaz -- The tumblers / Nathan Englander -- Devotion / Adam Haslett -- The ant of the self / ZZ Packer -- Stars of Motown shining bright / Julie Orringer -- Lucky girls / Nell Freudenberger. |
| Alt author |
Ford, Richard, 1944-
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| ISBN |
9781862079045 (v.1) |
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9781847080400 (v.2) |
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