by Bill Buford · Granta Magazine · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140140828
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«Granta 7» is the anthology of young British novelists edited by Bill Buford, published by Granta Magazine in paperback (320 pages, in English).
This volume brings together the stories of the twenty writers that Granta magazine selected in 1983 for its first list of the best young British novelists. It includes pieces by authors who would later stand out, such as Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie, alongside Pat Barker, Graham Swift and Rose Tremain.
The volume is issue 7 of Granta: The Magazine of New Writing and the first installment of the Best of Young British Novelists series. The original selection dates from 1983.
For readers interested in the short story and in the early work of authors who have shaped contemporary British fiction.
William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism."
