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.