The Granta book of the American short story / edited by Richard Ford.

Contents: A Day in the open, Jane Bowles.--A Distant episode, Paul Bowles.--Blackberry winter, Robert Penn Warren.-- O City of broken dreams, John Cheever.--The lottery, Shirley Jackson.--The View from the balcony, Wallace Stegner.--No place for you, my love, Eudora Welty.--The State of grace, Harold Brodkey.--The Magic barrel, Bernard Malamud.--Good country people, Flannery O'Connor.--In time which made a monkey of us all, Grace Paley.--Sonny's blues. James Baldwin.--Venus, cupid, folly and time, Peter Taylor.--Welcome to the monkey house, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.--In the zoo, Jean Stafford.--A Poetics for bullies, Stanley Elkin.--Upon the sweeping flood, Joyce Carol Oates.--The Indian uprising, Donald Barthelme.--In the heart of the heart of the country, William Gass.--A Solo song: for Doc, James Alan McPherson.--The Babysitter, Robert Coover.--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.--The Fireman's wife, Richard Bausch.--Hot ice, Stuart Bybek.--You're ugly, too, Lorris Moore.--The things carried, Tim O-Brien.