20 : the best of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize / edited by John Edgar Wideman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Wideman, John Edgar

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Drue Heinz Literature Prize.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 344 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Twenty

Best of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2001]

Summary:

One of the most prestigious awards of its kind, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize was established in 1980 to encourage and support the reading and writing of short fiction.

Over the past twenty years judges such as Robert Penn Warren, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Alice McDermott, and Frank Conroy have selected the best collections from the hundreds submitted annually by up-and-coming writers.

20 represents the best of the best -- one story from each of the prizewinning volumes. Chosen by acclaimed author John Edgar Wideman, the selections cover a broad range of inventive and original characters, settings, and emotions, charting the evolution of the short story over the past two decades.

The Drue Heinz Literature Prize has helped launch the careers of a score of previously "undiscovered" writers, many of whom have enjoyed great commercial success as well as critical acclaim, earning favorable reviews in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Newsweek, and the Chicago Tribune.

20 is a culmination of twenty years of excellence in short fiction writing. It celebrates the hopes, dreams, and individual successes of all the authors who participated in the contest through the past two decades. The Drue Heinz Literature Prize's mission supports and recognizes those writers brave enough to tackle the challenging genre of short fiction. The stories contained in this volume stand as proof: mission accomplished.

Contents:

The death of Descartes / David Bosworth

Thief / Robley Wilson

Frankenstein meets the ant people / Jonathan Penner

The luckiest man in the world / Randall Silvis

The man who loved Levittown / W.D. Wetherell

Weeds / Rick DeMarinis

At St. Theresa's College for Women / Ellen Hunnicutt

Uncle Moustapha's eclipse / Reginald McKnight

Ariadne in Exile / Maya Sonenberg

Limbo river / Rick Hillis

Have you seen me? / Elizabeth Graver

Director of the world / Jane McCafferty

Winter haven / Stewart O'Nan

Rise / Jennifer Cornell

Dangerous men / Geoffrey Becker

Vaquita / Edith Pearlman

Fado / Katherine Faz

The woman in the headlights / Barbara Croft

After / Lucy Honig

Waiting for Giotto / Adria Bernardi.

ISBN:

0822941708

OCLC:

48209775