Prize Stories 1990
Author: Abrahams, William
ISBN: 9780385264990
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 01 Mar 1990
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback / softback
"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction"-i>The Atlantic Monthly/i>br> br> The O. Henry i>Prize Stories 1990/i> gathers 20 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. br>br> Stories include-br> Leo E. Litwak "The Eleventh Edition" (first prize)br> Peter Matthiessen "Lumumba Lives" (second prize)br> Lore Segal "The Reverse Bug" (third prize)br> Joyce Carol Oates "Heat"br> Carolyn Osborn "The Grands"br> James P. Blaylock "Unidentified Objects"br> Jane Brown Gillette "Sins Against Animals"br> Julie Schumacher "The Private Life of Robert Schumann"br> Joanne Greenberg "Elizabeth Baird"br> Alice Adams "1940- Fall"br> T. Coraghessan Boyle "The Ape Lady in Retirement"br> Marilyn Sides "The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife"br> David Michael Kaplan "Stand"br> Meredith Steinbach "In Recent History"br> Claudia Smith Brinson "Einstein's Daughter"br> Felicia Ackerman "The Forecasting Game"br> Reginald McKnight "The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas"br> Bruce Fleming "The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein"br> Devon Jersild "In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond"br> Janice Eidus "Vito Loves Geraldine"br> br> "One of the most welcome signs of the literary spring is the appearance of the annual O. Henry Awards collection."-i>Los Angeles Times/i>
ISBN: 9780385264990
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 01 Mar 1990
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback / softback
"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction"-i>The Atlantic Monthly/i>br> br> The O. Henry i>Prize Stories 1990/i> gathers 20 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. br>br> Stories include-br> Leo E. Litwak "The Eleventh Edition" (first prize)br> Peter Matthiessen "Lumumba Lives" (second prize)br> Lore Segal "The Reverse Bug" (third prize)br> Joyce Carol Oates "Heat"br> Carolyn Osborn "The Grands"br> James P. Blaylock "Unidentified Objects"br> Jane Brown Gillette "Sins Against Animals"br> Julie Schumacher "The Private Life of Robert Schumann"br> Joanne Greenberg "Elizabeth Baird"br> Alice Adams "1940- Fall"br> T. Coraghessan Boyle "The Ape Lady in Retirement"br> Marilyn Sides "The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife"br> David Michael Kaplan "Stand"br> Meredith Steinbach "In Recent History"br> Claudia Smith Brinson "Einstein's Daughter"br> Felicia Ackerman "The Forecasting Game"br> Reginald McKnight "The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas"br> Bruce Fleming "The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein"br> Devon Jersild "In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond"br> Janice Eidus "Vito Loves Geraldine"br> br> "One of the most welcome signs of the literary spring is the appearance of the annual O. Henry Awards collection."-i>Los Angeles Times/i>
