{"product_id":"the-granta-book-of-the-american-short-story","title":"The Granta Book of the American Short Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Ford  one of the finest American novelists and short-story writers  introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story  which Granta Books published in 1992. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century. In the fourteen years since  Ford has been reading new stories and rereading old ones and selecting new favourites. This new collection  again of more than forty writers  expands Fords original choice to include stories that he regretted overlooking first time around as well as many by a new generation of writers  among them Sherman Alexie  Junot Diaz  Deborah Eisenberg  Nell Freudenberg  Matt Klam  Jhumpa Lahiri and Z. Z. Packer. None of the stories (though a few of the writers) was in the first volume. Published to critical acclaim in hardback in 2007  this book is an essential companion volume to the first collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44967255900213,"sku":"ByrdShop_184708978X","price":91.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781847089786_245741dd-de18-4b2f-b3a8-9be43caa8014.jpg?v=1772695991","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-granta-book-of-the-american-short-story","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}