Questa serie presenta la quintessenza del racconto breve americano, catturando le diverse voci e il panorama in evoluzione della letteratura di una nazione. Ogni volume cura attentamente selezioni sia di maestri affermati che di talenti emergenti, evidenziando il potere duraturo e l'arte della breve narrazione. Queste antologie approfondiscono le complessità della vita americana e la condizione umana attraverso personaggi avvincenti e prosa evocativa. Offrono una ricca esplorazione del successo letterario per i lettori che apprezzano la narrazione di impatto in una forma concisa.
An anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century 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.
In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story . 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 Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, and forty others demonstrating how much memorable power can lie in the briefest narration. In the years since, Ford has been reading new stories and rereading old ones and selecting new favorites. This new collection features more than forty stories, including some he regretted overlooking the first time around, as well as many by a new generation of writers—among them Sherman Alexie, Junot Díaz, Deborah Eisenberg, Nell Freudenberger, Matthew Klam, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Z. Z. Packer. None of the stories (though a few of the writers) were in the first volume. Once again, Ford’s introduction is an illuminating exposition of how a good story is written by a master of the craft.