THE GRANTA BOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY
Edited by Richard Ford
Granta Books London CONTENTS
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
77K 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
White Rat Gayl Jones
Are These Actual Miles? Raymond Carver
Train Joy Williams
Fugue in A Minor William Kotzwinkle
Here Come the Maples John Updike
Pretty Ice Mary Robison
Testimony of Pilot Barry Hannah
Greenwich Time Ann Beattie
Lechery Jayne Anne Phillips
Liars in Love Richard Yates
The Circling Hand Jamaica Kincaid
Territory David Leavitt
Bridging Max Apple
Greasy Lake T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Rich Brother Tobias Wolff
American Express James Salter
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
77K Fireman's Wife Richard Bausch
Hot Ice Stuart Dybek
You're Ugly, Too Lorrie Moore
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
Acknowledgments