The Granta Book of the American Short Story

The Granta Book of the American Short Story

BookA Day In the Open
EditorRichard Ford (2)
PublisherGranta Books
Associate PublisherPenguin Books
Author photo/portraitSally Soames
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationGreat Britain, Canada, U.S.A.
This Edition Published1993
Pages / Font704 pages
ISBN0-14-014032-8
EAN 590201
Barcode9 780140 140323
Printer's Key3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
ChaptersIntroduction 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
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