Granta 8 : Dirty Realism Paperback / softback
by William Boyd
Part of the Granta: The Magazine of New Writing series
Paperback / softback
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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.'
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:Granta Books
- Publication Date:07/01/2008
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- ISBN:9780140068696
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:Granta Books
- Publication Date:07/01/2008
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- ISBN:9780140068696
