<DIV>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. Stories featured here include ?A Day in the Open” by Jane Bowles; ?Blackberry Winter” by Robert Penn Warren; ?O City of Broken Dreams” by John Cheever; ?The Magic Barrel” by Bernard Malamud; ?In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All” by Grace Paley; ?Sonny's Blues” by James Baldwin; ?Are These Actual Miles?” by Raymond Carver; and ?You're Ugly, Too” by Lorrie Moore. ?Ford's choice of stories is exemplary ... there's wonderful reading here.” ? The Washington Post</div>