Features the work by the twenty writers that Granta's judges - including novelists Edmund White and AM Homes - have selected as the most interesting young voices in American fiction.
Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilisations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked.
This novel is a satiric comedy of manners contrasting the background of an American social climber with the standards of her third husband, a French aristocrat. It is the story of the voracious and calculating Undine Spragg and her slightly-flawed victory in society.
