The O. Henry Awards prize stories, 2006 / edited and with an introduction by Laura Furman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Anchor Books, 2006.Description: xviii, 361 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1400095395
  • 9781400095391
Other title:
  • Prize stories 2006
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 648 .S5 .O23 2006
Contents:
Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones -- You go when you can no longer stay / Jackie Kay -- Mule killers / Lydia Peelle -- The broad estates of death / Paul Fox -- The pelvis series / Neela Vaswani -- conceived / David Lawrence Morse -- The dressmaker's child / William Trevor -- Disquisition on tears / Stephanie Reents -- Sault Ste. Marie / David Means -- Unction / Karen Brown -- '80s Lilies / Terese Svoboda -- Passion / Alice Munro -- The center of the world / George Makana Clark -- Wolves / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- Girls I know / Douglas Trevor -- The plague of doves / Louise Erdrich -- Famine / Xu Xi -- Puffed rice and meatballs / Lara Vapnyar -- Letters in the snow-for kind strangers and unborn children-for the ones lost and most beloved / Melanie Rae Thon -- Window / Deborah Eisenberg -- Reading the O. Henry Prize stories 2006 -- Writing the O. Henry Prize stories 2006.
Awards:
  • O. Henry Memorial Award, 2006.
Summary: "A radiant reflection of contemporary fiction at its best, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 features stories from locales as diverse as Russia, Zimbabwe, and the rural American South. Series editor Laura Furman considered thousands of stories in hundreds of literary magazines before selecting the winners, which are accompanied here by short essays from each of the three eminent jurors on his or her favorite story, as well as observations from all twenty prize winners on what inspired them. Ranging in tone from arch humor to self-deluding obsessiveness to fairy-tale ingenuousness, these stories are a treasury of potential classics."--The publisher.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection PS 648 .S5 .O23 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98649087

"An Anchor Books original"--Title page verso.

Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones -- You go when you can no longer stay / Jackie Kay -- Mule killers / Lydia Peelle -- The broad estates of death / Paul Fox -- The pelvis series / Neela Vaswani -- conceived / David Lawrence Morse -- The dressmaker's child / William Trevor -- Disquisition on tears / Stephanie Reents -- Sault Ste. Marie / David Means -- Unction / Karen Brown -- '80s Lilies / Terese Svoboda -- Passion / Alice Munro -- The center of the world / George Makana Clark -- Wolves / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- Girls I know / Douglas Trevor -- The plague of doves / Louise Erdrich -- Famine / Xu Xi -- Puffed rice and meatballs / Lara Vapnyar -- Letters in the snow-for kind strangers and unborn children-for the ones lost and most beloved / Melanie Rae Thon -- Window / Deborah Eisenberg -- Reading the O. Henry Prize stories 2006 -- Writing the O. Henry Prize stories 2006.

"A radiant reflection of contemporary fiction at its best, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 features stories from locales as diverse as Russia, Zimbabwe, and the rural American South. Series editor Laura Furman considered thousands of stories in hundreds of literary magazines before selecting the winners, which are accompanied here by short essays from each of the three eminent jurors on his or her favorite story, as well as observations from all twenty prize winners on what inspired them. Ranging in tone from arch humor to self-deluding obsessiveness to fairy-tale ingenuousness, these stories are a treasury of potential classics."--The publisher.

O. Henry Memorial Award, 2006.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.