Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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; Sonnys Blues” by James Baldwin; Are These Actual Miles?” by Raymond Carver; and Youre Ugly, Too” by Lorrie Moore. Fords choice of stories is exemplary ... theres wonderful reading here.” The Washington Post