O Henry Prize Stories 2006

Author : Laura Furman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307488950
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radiant reflection of contemporary fiction at its best, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 features stories from locales as diverse as Russia, Zimbabwe, and the rural American South. Series editor Laura Furman considered thousands of stories in hundreds of literary magazines before selecting the winners, which are accompanied here by short essays from each of the three eminent jurors on his or her favorite story, as well as observations from all twenty prize winners on what inspired them. Ranging in tone from arch humor to self-deluding obsessiveness to fairy-tale ingenuousness, these stories are a treasury of potential classics. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Laura Furman
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417757831
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 written by Laura Furman and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laura Furman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307276880
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories judged to be the best in America and Canada for 2006 presents an outstanding selection of short fiction, along with essays by the three judges and commentary from the twenty prize winners.

Author : Laura Furman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 9781400095391
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radiant reflection of contemporary fiction at its best, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 features stories from locales as diverse as Russia, Zimbabwe, and the rural American South. Series editor Laura Furman considered thousands of stories in hundreds of literary magazines before selecting the winners, which are accompanied here by short essays from each of the three eminent jurors on his or her favorite story, as well as observations from all twenty prize winners on what inspired them. Ranging in tone from arch humor to self-deluding obsessiveness to fairy-tale ingenuousness, these stories are a treasury of potential classics. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Laura Furman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307473074
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories 2009 written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 features unforgettable tales in settings as diverse as post-war Vietnam, a luxurious seaside development in Cape Town, an Egyptian desert village, and a permanently darkened New York City. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Laura Furman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0345807324
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories roam the world, from Nigeria to Venice, from an erupting volcano in Iceland to a brothel in the old Wild West. They feature a dazzling array of characters: a young American falling in love in Japan, a girl raised by snake-handling fundamentalists, an old man mourning his late wife, and a fierce guard dog with a talent for escape. Accompanying the stories are the editor’s introduction, essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines. Mark Haddon, “The Gun,” Granta Stephen Dixon, “Talk,” The American Reader Tessa Hadley, “Valentine,” The New Yorker Olivia Clare, “Pétur,” Ecotone David Bradley, “You Remember The Pin Mill,” Narrative Kirstin Valdez Quade, “Nemecia,” Narrativemagazine.com Dylan Landis, “Trust,” Tin House Allison Alsup, “Old Houses,” New Orleans Review Halina Duraj, “Fatherland,” Harvard Review Chanelle Benz, “West of the Known,” The American Reader William Trevor, “The Women,” The New Yorker Colleen Morrissey, “Good Faith,” The Cincinnati Review Robert Anthony Siegel, “The Right Imaginary Person,” Tin House Louise Erdrich, “Nero,” The New Yorker Rebecca Hirsch Garcia, “A Golden Light,” Threepenny Review Chinelo Okparanta, “Fairness,” Subtropics Kristen Iskandrian, “The Inheritors,” Tin House Michael Parker, “Deep Eddy,” Southwest Review Maura Stanton, “Oh Shenandoah,” New England Review Laura van den Berg, “Opa-Locka,” The Southern Review The Jurors on Their Favorites: Tash Aw, James Lasdun, Joan Silber The Writers on Their Work Publications Submitted

Author : Laura Furman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307947890
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The PEN O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an army training camp in China, the salt mines of Detroit, a divided Balkan town, and the eye of a hurricane. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0345803256
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 written by and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantation, the Kenai River in Alaska, a mansion in New Delhi, a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat, and the ghost-haunted rubble of a Turkish girls’ school. Also included are the editor’s introduction, essays from the jurors (Lauren Groff, Edith Pearlman, and Jim Shepard) on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.

Author : Laura Furman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307805948
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 contains twenty unforgettable stories selected from hundreds of literary magazines. The winning tales take place in such far-flung locales as Madagascar, Nantucket, a Midwestern meth lab, Antarctica, and a post-apocalyptic England, and feature a fascinating array of characters: aging jazzmen, avalanche researchers, a South African wild child, and a mute actor in silent films. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines. Your Fate Hurtles Down at You Jim Shepard Diary of an Interesting Year Helen Simpson Melinda Judy Doenges Nightblooming Kenneth Calhoun The Restoration of the Villa Where Tibor Kálmán Once Lived Tamas Dobozy Ice Lily Tuck How to Leave Hialeah Jennine Capó Crucet The Junction David Means Pole, Pole Susan Minot Alamo Plaza Brad Watson The Black Square Chris Adrian Nothing of Consequence Jane Delury The Rules Are the Rules Adam Foulds The Vanishing American Leslie Parry Crossing Mark Slouka Bed Death Lori Ostlund Windeye Brian Evenson Sunshine Lynn Freed Never Come Back Elizabeth Tallent Something You Can’t Live Without Matthew Neill Null For author interviews, photos, and more, go to www.ohenryprizestories.com A portion of the proceeds from this book will go to support the PEN Readers & Writers Literary Outreach Program. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Laura Furman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1101971126
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories range in setting from Japan at the outset of World War II to a remote cabin in the woods of Wyoming, and the characters that inhabit them range from a misanthropic survivor of an apocalyptic flood to a unicorn hidden in a suburban house. Whether fantastical or realistic, gothic or lyrical, the stories here are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by the editor’s introduction, essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines. CONTENTS "Irises," Elizabeth Genovise "The Mongerji Letters," Geetha Iyer "Narrator," Elizabeth Tallent "Bonus Baby," Joe Donnelly "Divergence," David H. Lynn "A Simple Composition," Shruti Swamy "Storm Windows," Charles Haverty "Train to Harbin," Asako Serizawa "Dismemberment," Wendell Berry "Exit Zero," Marie-Helene Bertino "Cigarettes," Sam Savage "Temples," Adrienne Celt "Safety," Lydia Fitzpatrick "Bounty," Diane Cook "A Single Deliberate Thing," Zebbie Watson "The Crabapple Tree," Robert Coover "Winter 1965," Frederic Tuten "They Were Awake," Rebecca Evanhoe "Slumming," Ottessa Moshfegh "Happiness," Ron Carlson The Jurors on Their Favorites: Molly Antopol, Peter Cameron, Lionel Shriver The Writers on Their Work Publications Submitted For author interviews, photos, and more, go to www.ohenryprizestories.com