A01=William Boyd
Author_William Boyd
bobbie ann mason
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elizabeth tallent
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frederic barthelme
jayne anne phillips
raymond carver
richard ford
tobias wolff
Product details
- ISBN 9780140068696
- Weight: 315g
- Dimensions: 147 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jan 2008
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.'
