Granta 8

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

• Authors: William Boyd, Unknown
• Assisted by: Bill Buford (Editor)
• Publisher: Granta Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.01.2008
• EAN: 9780140068696
• ISBN: 978-0-14-006869-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 313 g
• Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing; Granta: The Magazine of New Writing
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies