The Granta Book of the American Short Story
| Book | A Day In the Open |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| This Edition Published | 1993 |
| Author | Jane Bowles |
| Editor | Richard Ford (2) |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Associate Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Author photo/portrait | Sally Soames |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Great Britain, Canada, U.S.A. |
| This Edition Published | 1993 |
| Pages / Font | 704 pages |
| ISBN | 0-14-014032-8 |
| EAN 5 | 90201 |
| Barcode | 9 780140 140323 |
| Printer's Key | 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 |
| Chapters | Introduction vii
A Day in the Open - Jane Bowles 1
A Distant Episode - Paul Bowles 11
Blackberry Winter - Robert Penn Warren 23
O City of Broken Dreams - John Cheever 44
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson 62
The View from the Balcony - Wallace Stegner 71
No Place For You, My Love - Eudora Welty 91
The State of Grace - Harold Brodkey 109
The Magic Barrel - Bernard Malamud 119
Good Country People - Flannery O'Connor 135
In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All - Grace Paley 154
Sonny's Blues - James Baldwin 170
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time - Peter Taylor 200
Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr 227
In the Zoo - Jean Stafford 244
A Poetics for Bullies - Stanley Elkin 264
Upon the Sweeping Flood - Joyce Carol Oates 281
The Indian Uprising - Donald Barthelme 297
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country - William Gass 303
A Solo Song: For Doc - James Alan McPherson 328
The Babysitter - Robert Coover 350
City Boy - Leonard Michaels 376 Introduction vii
A Day in the Open - Jane Bowles 1
A Distant Episode - Paul Bowles 11
Blackberry Winter - Robert Penn Warren 23
O City of Broken Dreams - John Cheever 44
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson 62
The View from the Balcony - Wallace Stegner 71
No Place For You, My Love - Eudora Welty 91
The State of Grace - Harold Brodkey 109
The Magic Barrel - Bernard Malamud 119
Good Country People - Flannery O'Connor 135
In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All - Grace Paley 154
Sonny's Blues - James Baldwin 170
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time - Peter Taylor 200
Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr 227
In the Zoo - Jean Stafford 244
A Poetics for Bullies - Stanley Elkin 264
Upon the Sweeping Flood - Joyce Carol Oates 281
The Indian Uprising - Donald Barthelme 297
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country - William Gass 303
A Solo Song: For Doc - James Alan McPherson 328
The Babysitter - Robert Coover 350
City Boy - Leonard Michaels 376 Show all ▾ |