The Granta Book of the American Short Story

Author: Richard Ford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847089786
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Granta Book of the American Short Story is a selection of the best works of American short fiction published in the last 50 years. -- Publisher details.

The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story

Author: Anne Enright
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
ISBN: 9781847080974
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Man Booker prize-winning author's selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's bestselling Granta Book of the American Short Story.

The Granta Book of the American Short Story

Author: Richard Ford
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781862071094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 744

Book Description
From the author of "Independence Day", Richard Ford edits and introduces this anthology for "Granta" which has become the most cited and authoritative collection of short stories on both sides of the Atlantic. Ford in his introduction discusses, among other things, the comment of Frank O'Connor that the short-story is handled so cleverly by Americans that it is our national art form.

The New Granta Book of the American Short Story

Author: Richard Ford
Publisher: Grove Press, Granta
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 792

Book Description
This collection features stories from over 40 writers including Sherman Alexie, Junot Diaz, Deborah Eisenberg, Nell Freudenberger, Matthew Klam, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Z.Z. Packer."

The Granta Book of the American Long Story

Author: Richard Ford
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781862072770
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 728

Book Description
This collection brings together 11 contemporary American writers. It includes long stories by Edwidge Danticat, Stanley Elkin, Ernest J. Gaines, Barry Hannah, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Jane Smiley, William Styron, Peter Taylor and Eudora Welty.

The Granta Book of the African Short Story

Author: Helon Habila
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847084389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa. These writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the opportunities offered by the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement. Their work is inspired by travel and exile. They are liberated, global and expansive. As Dambudzo Marechera wrote: 'If you're a writer for a specific nation or specific race, then f*** you." These are the stories of a new Africa, punchy, self-confident and defiant. Includes stories by: Fatou Diome; Aminatta Forna; Manuel Rui; Patrice Nganang; Leila Aboulela; Zo Wicomb; Alaa Al Aswany; Doreen Baingana; E.C. Osondu.

Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

Author: Paul Delaney
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474442234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 563

Book Description
Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and stylistics

American Short Story since 1950

Author: Kasia Boddy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748631631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
The American Short Story since 1950 offers a reappraisal and contextualisation of a critically underrated genre during a particularly rich period in its history. It offers new readings of important stories by key writers including Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Lorrie Moore and Grace Paley. These readings are related throughout to the various contexts in which stories are written and published, including creative writing schools, story-writing handbooks, mass market and 'little' magazines.

The Writer's Eye

Author: Amy E. Weldon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135002533X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Learning to write starts with learning to do one big thing: pay attention to the world around you, even though just about everything in modern life makes this more difficult than it needs to be. Developing habits and practices of observing, and writing down what you notice, can be the first step away from the anxieties and doubts that can hold you back from your ultimate goal as a writer: discovering something to say and a voice to say it in. The Writer's Eye is an inspiring guide for writers at all stages of their writing lives. Drawing on new research into creative writers and their relationship with the physical world, Amy E. Weldon shows us how to become more attentive observers of the world and find inspiration in any environment. Including exercises, writing prompts and sample texts and spanning multiple genres from novels to nonfiction to poetry, this is the ideal starting point for anyone beginning to write seriously and offers refreshing perspectives for experienced writers seeking new inspiration.

The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

Author: Blanche H. Gelfant
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231504950
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 677

Book Description
Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.