The O. Henry Awards Prize Stories, 2005 edited and with an introduction by Laura Furman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Doubleday, 2005.Description: xvii, 398 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1400076544
  • 9781400076543
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 648 .S5 O23 2005
Contents:
Mudlavia / Elizabeth Stuckey-French -- The brief history of the dead / Kevin Brockmeier -- The golden era of heartbreak / Michael Parker -- The hurt man / Wendell Berry -- The Tutor / Nell Freudenberger -- Fantasy for eleven fingers / ben Fountain -- The high divide / Charles D'Ambrosio -- Desolation / Gail Jones -- A Rich man / Edward P. Jones -- Dues / Dale Peck -- Speckle trout / Ron Rash -- Sphinxes / Timothy Crouse -- Grace / Paula Fox -- Snowbound / Liza Ward -- Tea / Nancy Reisman -- Christie / Caitlin Macy -- Refuge in London / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- The drowned woman / Frances de Pontes Peebles -- The card trick / Tessa Hadley -- What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie -- Reading the O. Henry Prize Stories 2005 -- Writing the O. Henry Prize Stories 2005.
Awards:
  • O. Henry Memorial Award, 2005.
Summary: Presents twenty O. Henry Prize-winning short stories, including works by Wendell Berry, Caitlin Macy, and Sherman Alexie, and includes comments by the authors and the volume's story jurors.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection PS 648 .S5 O23 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98649086

"As of this collection, the O. Henry Prize Stories will be published in January rather than October. The present collection was chosen from stories published in 2003. The next collection, The O. Henry Stories 2006, will be selected from stories published in 2004--T.p. verso.

Jurors: Cristina Barcia, Ann Patchett, Richard Russo.

Mudlavia / Elizabeth Stuckey-French -- The brief history of the dead / Kevin Brockmeier -- The golden era of heartbreak / Michael Parker -- The hurt man / Wendell Berry -- The Tutor / Nell Freudenberger -- Fantasy for eleven fingers / ben Fountain -- The high divide / Charles D'Ambrosio -- Desolation / Gail Jones -- A Rich man / Edward P. Jones -- Dues / Dale Peck -- Speckle trout / Ron Rash -- Sphinxes / Timothy Crouse -- Grace / Paula Fox -- Snowbound / Liza Ward -- Tea / Nancy Reisman -- Christie / Caitlin Macy -- Refuge in London / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- The drowned woman / Frances de Pontes Peebles -- The card trick / Tessa Hadley -- What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie -- Reading the O. Henry Prize Stories 2005 -- Writing the O. Henry Prize Stories 2005.

Presents twenty O. Henry Prize-winning short stories, including works by Wendell Berry, Caitlin Macy, and Sherman Alexie, and includes comments by the authors and the volume's story jurors.

O. Henry Memorial Award, 2005.

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