| Description |
xxxviii, 393 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"The best short stories of the year"--Cover. |
| Contents |
The tomb of wrestling / Jo Ann Beard, Tin House -- Counterblast / Marjorie Celona, The Southern Review -- Nayla / Youmna Chlala, Prairie Schooner -- Lucky Dragon / Viet Dinh, Ploughshares -- Stop 'n' go / Michael Parker, New England Review -- Past perfect continuous / Dounia Choukri, Chicago Quarterly Review -- Inversion of Marcia / Thomas Bolt, n+1 -- Nights in Logar / Jamil Jan Kochai, A Public Space -- How we eat / Mark Jude Poirier, Epoch -- Deaf and blind / Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker -- Why were they throwing bricks? / Jenny Zhang, n+1 -- An amount of discretion / Lauren Alwan, The Southern Review -- Queen Elizabeth / Brad Felver, One Story -- The stamp collector / Dave King, Fence -- Much or less like a man / Michael Powers, The Threepenny Review -- The Earth, thy great exchequer, ready lies / Jo Lloyd, Zoetrope -- Up here / Tristan Hughes, Ploughshares -- The houses that are left behind / Brenda Walker, Kenyon Review -- We keep them anyway / Stephanie A. Vega, The Threepenny Review -- Solstice / Anne Enright, The New Yorker -- Reading the O. Henry Prize Stories 2018: the jurors on their favorites -- Writing the O. Henry Prize Stories: the writers on their work. |
| Summary |
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired their stories, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American -- Fiction.
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Short stories, Canadian -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Furman, Laura, editor.
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Beard, Jo Ann.
Tomb of wrestling.
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Celona, Marjorie.
Counterblast.
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Youmna, Chlala.
Nala.
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Dinh, Viet, 1974-
Lucky dragon.
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Parker, Michael, 1959-
Stop 'n' go.
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Choukri, Dounia.
Past perfect continuous.
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Bolt, Thomas, 1959-
Inversion of Marcia.
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Kochai, Jamil Jan.
Nights in Logar.
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Poirier, Mark Jude.
How we eat.
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Vapnyar, Lara, 1971-
Deaf and blind.
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| ISBN |
9780525436584 pbk. |
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