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Granta 8

By Bill Buford

Granta 8 Social Sciences

Granta 8

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Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life - a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict - but they write about it with a disturbing detachment, at times verging on comedy. Understated, ironic, sometimes savage, but insistently compassionate, these stories constitute a new voice in fiction. In this special feature, Granta presents a group of younger authors - many published in Britain for the first time - who, writing in a strange, exaggerated style, have single-handedly revitalized the short story. 'These writers,' Tobias Wolff has observed, 'while not necessarily a school, nevertheless form a new voice. They are able to speak to us about the things that matter.'
Product details
Number of Pages:
252
Release Date:
1999-05-01
Publication Date:
2008-01-07
Publisher:
Granta Publications
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0140068694
ISBN13:
9780140068696
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
313 g
Height:
148 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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