| Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists Contributor(s): Rausing, Sigrid (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1909889067 ISBN-13: 9781909889064 Publisher: Granta Magazine OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.010 |
| Series: Magazine of New Writing |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.7" W x 8.2" (0.90 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The third volume of Granta's renowned and prescient, Best of Young American Novelists Every ten years, Granta devotes an issue to new American fiction by writers under the age of forty, showcasing the young novelists deemed to be the best of their generation - writers of remarkable achievement and promise. In 1997 and 2007 we picked out such luminaries as Edwidge Danticat, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, Nicole Krauss, Lorrie Moore, Yiyun Li, Karen Russell and Gary Shteyngart. In this special issue, we bring you Granta's Best of Young American Novelists of 2017: twenty-one outstanding writers, each able to capture the preoccupations of modern America. Jesse Ball, Halle Butler, Emma Cline, Joshua Cohen, Mark Doten, Jen George, Rachel B. Glaser, Lauren Groff, Yaa Gyasi, Garth Risk Hallberg, Greg Jackson, Sana Krasikov, Catherine Lacey, Ben Lerner, Karan Mahajan, Anthony Marra, Dinaw Mengestu, Ottessa Moshfegh, Chinelo Okparanta, Esm Weijun Wang, Claire Vaye Watkins These are the novelists you will soon be reading, chosen by panel of judges who are themselves acclaimed writers: Patrick deWitt, A.M. Homes, Kelly Link, Ben Marcus and Sigrid Rausing. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rausing, Sigrid: - Sigrid Rausing is editor and publisher of Granta magazine and publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful, which has been translated into four different languages. |