The Granta book of the American short story
By: edited and introduced by Richard Ford
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 756
ISBN-13: 9781847080400
Subjects: American Short stories
Other titles: American short story.
Notes: Originally published in 2007.
Table of contents: title: Ladies in Spring  -- Eudora Welty; title: Reunion  -- John Cheever; title: Ship Island : the story of a mermaid  -- Elizabeth Spencer; title: Friends  -- Grace Paley; title: The artificial nigger  -- Flannery O'Connor; title: Oh, Joseph, I'm so tired  -- Richard Yates; title: Me and Miss Mandible  -- Donald Barthelme; title: Natural color  -- John Updike; title: The half-skinned steer  -- Annie Proulx; title: Killings  -- Andre Dubus; title: Helping  -- Robert Stone; title: Errand  -- Raymond Carver; title: Where is here?  -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: The management of grief  -- Bharati Mukherjee; title: The Palatski Man  -- Stuart Dybek; title: Get some young  -- Barry Hannah; title: The farm  -- Joy Williams; title: Mr. Green  -- Robert Olen Butler; title: The pugilist at rest  -- Thom Jones; title: Ancient history  -- Richard Bausch; title: Firelight  -- Tobias Wolff; title: The custodian  -- Deborah Eisenberg; title: The rabbit hole as likely explanation  -- Ann Beattie; title: The miracle at Ballinspittle  -- T.C. Boyle; title: Work  -- Denis Johnson; title: Nothing to ask for  -- Dennis McFarland; title: Grit  -- Tom Franklin; title: A new man  -- Edward P. Jones; title: Blue boy  -- Kevin Canty; title: Anthropology  -- Andrea Lee; title: The plague of doves  -- Louise Erdrich; title: A romantic weekend  -- Mary Gaitskill; title: Two dogs  -- Steve Yarbrough; title: People like that are the only people here : canonical babbling in Peed Onk  -- Lorrie Moore; title: CivilWarLand in bad decline  -- George Saunders; title: Issues I dealt with in therapy  -- Matthew Klam; title: The toughest Indian in the world  -- Sherman Alexie; title: A temporary matter  -- Jhumpa Lahiri; title: Aurora  -- Junot Díaz; title: The tumblers  -- Nathan Englander; title: Devotion  -- Adam Haslett; title: The ant of the self  -- ZZ Packer; title: Stars of Motown shining bright  -- Julie Orringer; title: Lucky girls -- Nell Freudenberger.