This selection from the best works of American short fiction published in the last fifty years is fast becoming one of the most important anthologies of contemporary writing. The collection begins in the 1940s with Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Paul Bowles, and ends in the 1990s with some of the most affecting stories written today, including work by Raymond Carver, John Updike, Tobias Wolff, and Jamaica Kincaid.
- ISBN10 0140142207
- ISBN13 9780140142204
- Publish Date 2 April 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 November 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Penguin Books / Granta
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 736
- Language English