- Published: 01/07/2008
- ISBN: 9781862079045
- 129x20mm
- 736 pages
The Granta Book Of The American Short Story
Richard Ford
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.
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‘It was my child’s outlook to think most things were right. And yet if life’s eternal drama is of events seeking a more perfect state, their life and mine was not that.’
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‘Occasionally if pushed or annoyed I'll come right out and say it: I make these little buggers up, that's what. So sue me’.
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‘It may be that writing fiction, imagining agencies, is my most trusted way into the unseen.’