TY  - BOOK
AU  - Furman,Laura
TI  - The O. Henry Awards prize stories, 2006
SN  - 1400095395
AV  - PS 648 .S5 .O23 2006 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Anchor Books
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - United States
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Fiction
N1  - "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
N2  - "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
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