num_pages: 712
description: 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; “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin; “Are These Actual Miles?” by Raymond Carver; and “You’re Ugly, Too” by Lorrie Moore. “Ford’s choice of stories is exemplary ... there’s wonderful reading here.” — The Washington Post
language: English
title: The Granta Book of the American Short Story
titlecomplete: The Granta Book of the American Short Story
genres: Classics, Anthologies, Collections, Fiction, Short Stories, Writing, Literary Fiction, American, Americana
ratings_count: 343
series: The Granta Book of the American Short Story
publisher: Grove Press, Granta