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Prize stories 1984 : the O. Henry awards / edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams.
LIBRA - Special PS648.S5 P73 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century.
- American fiction.
- Short stories, American.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- O. Henry awards
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1984.
- Summary:
- The Annual publications of The O. Henry Awards Prize Stories is always a highlight of the literary season. Here is the finest of contemporary American short fiction-- twenty stories representing not only established writers but promising new talent as well.
- Contents:
- Rosa / Cynthia Ozick
- Revive us again / Gloria Norris
- Risk / Charles Dickinson
- Counting months / David Leavitt
- Conveniences / Edith Pearlman
- Alaska / Alice Adams
- The Old Left / Daniel Menaker
- Living alone in Iota / Lee K. Abbott, Jr.
- A private landscape / Melissa Brown Pritchard
- The model / Bernard Malamud
- The third count / Andrew Fetler
- Lost sons / James Salter
- Prayer for the dying / Willis Johnson
- The life and times of Major Fiction / Jonathan Baumbach
- The artificial moonlight / Donald Justice
- The Evolution of Birds of Paradise / Elizabeth Tallent
- Not a good girl / Perri Klass
- The story hearer / Grace Paley
- The love child / Helen Norris
- For Jerome
- with love and kisses / Gordon Lish.
- Notes:
- O. Henry Memorial Award, 1984.
- ISBN:
- 0385188447
- 9780385188449
- 0385188552
- 9780385188555
- OCLC:
- 27255839
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