The O. Henry Awards Prize Stories, 1952 /

The O. Henry Awards Prize Stories, 1952 / O. Henry prize stories, 1952 Prize stories 1952 edited and with an introduction by Larry Dark. - New York, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1952. - xviii, 443 pages ; 22 cm

Introduction / A nurse's story Peter Baida ; Merry-go-sorry Save the reaper The depressed person / Cataract / Sea oak / Interpreter of maladies / Nixon under the bodhi tree / Mister Brother / Moon / Burning / Watching girls play / Afterbirth / Son of the wolfman / Miracle boy / The underground gardens / Fork used in eating Reverend Baker / Sign / A tortoise for the Queen of Tonga / The mud below -- Contributors' notes -- Jurors -- Short-listed stories -- 1952 Magazine Award : The New Yorker -- Magazines consulted. Larry Dark -- Sherman Alexie -- Cary Holladay ; Stephen King -- Alice Munro ; Lorrie Moore -- David Foster Wallace -- Pam Houston -- George Saunders -- Jhumpa Lahiri -- Gerald Reilly -- Michael Cunningham -- Chaim Potok -- Robert Schirmer -- W.D. Wetherell -- Sheila M. Schwartz -- Michael Chabon -- Pinckney Benedict -- T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Kiana Davenport -- Charlotte Forbes -- Julia Whitty -- (first prize) introduced by (second prize) / introduced by (thrid prize) / introduced by

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Short stories, American.


United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

PS 648 .S5 O23 1952