Esta serie presenta la quintaesencia del cuento corto estadounidense, capturando las diversas voces y el panorama cambiante de la literatura de una nación. Cada volumen selecciona cuidadosamente obras tanto de maestros consagrados como de talentos emergentes, destacando el poder perdurable y la maestría de la narrativa breve. Estas antologías profundizan en las complejidades de la vida estadounidense y la condición humana a través de personajes cautivadores y prosa evocadora. Ofrecen una rica exploración del logro literario para los lectores que aprecian la narración impactante en 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.