| Description |
xxxviii, 457 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Laura Furman, Series Editior. Funny little snake/ Tessa Hadley, the New Yorker ; Synchronicity / John Keeble, Haper's magazine ; No spanish / Moira McCavana, Harvard review ; Girl of few seasons / Rachel Kondo, Ploughshares solos ; Julia and Sunny / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Ploughshares ; Unstuck / Stephanie Reents, Witness ; Mermaid river / Alexia Arthurs, the Sewanee Review ; Bad Girl / Valerie O'Riordan, LitMag ; Aquacero / Patricia Engel, Kenyon review ; Soma / Kenan Orhan, the Massachusetts review ; Goodnight nobody / Sarah Hall, One Story ; 610 North, 610 West / Bryan Washington, Tin house ; Mr. Can'aan / Isabella Hammad, the Paris review ; Omakase / Weike Wang, the New Yorker ; Prime / Caoilinn Hughes, Granta.com ; Slingshot / Souvankham Thammavongsa, Harper's magazine ; Flowers for America / Doua Thao, fiction ; Lagomorph / Alexander MacLeod, Granta ; Maps and ledgers / John Edgar Wideman, Haper's magazine. |
| Summary |
The O. Henry Prize stories 2019 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from the thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The collection includes essays by the three guest jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and a comprehensive resource list of the many magazines and journals, both large and small, that publish short fiction. |
| Note |
"An Anchor Books original, September 2019"--Title page verso. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 21st century.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Furman, Laura, editor, writer of introduction.
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Freed, Lynn, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Strout, Elizabeth, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Vapnyar, Lara, 1971- writer of supplementary textual content.
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| ISBN |
9780525565536 |
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0525565531 |
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