The Granta Book of the American Long Story

Published
Jan 2003
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General Fiction General Fiction
Pages
720

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In this collection, Pulitzer prize-winning author Richard Ford brings together 11 of the finest examples of American long stories or novellas. Selecting at least one story from each decade since the 1940s, this anthology includes "June Recital" by Eudora Welty; "The Long March" by William Styron; "Goodbye, Columbus" by Philip Roth; "A Long Day in November" by Ernest J. Gaines; "The Old Forest" by Peter Taylor; "The Age of Grief" by Jane Smiley; "I Lock My Door Upon Myself" by Joyce Carol Oates; and "Hey, Have You Got a Cig, the Time, the News, My Face?" by Barry Hannah.

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First Edition Jan 2003 Grove Press ISBN 1862072779
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