Pen O Henry Prize Stories 2011

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 : 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.

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 : Caitlin Horrocks
Publisher : Sarabande Books
ISBN 13 : 1936747251
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Is Not Your City written by Caitlin Horrocks and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 11 darkly comic stories, women isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace.

Author : D. Seth Horton
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826353150
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest written by D. Seth Horton and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southwest of the twenty-first century is full of surprises, and so is this collection of southwestern short stories published between 2007 and 2011. The writers represented here remind us that this is not the “Old Southwest” of gunfighters and sagebrush but, instead, a place of rock collectors, palm readers, and Russian mail-order brides. Well-known authors like Sallie Bingham, Ron Carlson, Laura Furman, and Dagoberto Gilb are joined here by exciting newcomers Eddie Chuculate, Don Waters, Claire Vaye Watkins, and others.

Author : Laura Furman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 9780307280350
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories judged to be the best in America and Canada for 2008 presents a selection of short fiction, along with essays by the three judges and commentary from the twenty prize winners.

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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 : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439194669
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mother Who Stayed written by Laura Furman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nine strikingly perceptive stories set miles and decades apart, Laura Furman mines the intricate, elusive lives of mothers and daughters—and of women who long for someone to nurture. Meet Rachel, a young girl desperate for her mother’s unbridled attention, knowing that soon she’ll have to face the world alone; Marian, a celebrated novelist who betrays the one person willing to take care of her as she is dying—her unclaimed “daughter”; and Dinah, a childless widow uplifted by the abandoned, century-old diaries of Mary Ann, a mother of eleven. The Mother Who Stayed is an homage to the timeless, primal bond between mother and child and a testament that the relationships we can’t define can be just as poignant, memorable, and inspiring as those determined by blood. Tender and insightful, Furman’s stories also bravely confront darker realities of separation and regret, death and infidelity—even murder. Her vividly imagined characters and chiseled prose close the gap between generations of women as they share their wisdom almost in chorus: Although our lives will end, we must cherish the sanctity of each day and say, as did Mary Ann ages ago, “I done what I could.”

Author : Geraldine Brooks
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547719299
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2011 written by Geraldine Brooks and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty of the best American short stories of 2011, chosen by the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Chord. The twenty tightly crafted stories collected here by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks are full of deftly drawn characters, universal truths, and often surprising humor. Richard Powers’s “To the Measures Fall” is a comic meditation on the uses of literature in the course of a life. In the satirical “The Sleep,” Caitlin Horrocks puts her fictional prairie town to bed—the inhabitants hibernate through the long winter as a form of escape—while in Steve Millhauser’s imagined town, the citizens are visited by ghostlike apparitions in “Phantoms.” Allegra Goodman’s spare but beautiful “La Vita Nuova” finds a jilted fiancée letting her art class paint all over her wedding dress as a poignant act of release. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wryly captures the social change in the air in Lagos, Nigeria, in “Ceiling,” her story of a wealthy young man who is not entirely at ease with what his life has become. As Brooks perused these richly imagined and varied landscapes, she found that it was like walking into the best kind of party, where you can hole up in a corner with old friends for a while, then launch out among interesting strangers. The Best American Short Stories 2011 also includes contributions from: Megan Mayhew Bergman · Tom Bissell • Jennifer Egan • Nathan Englander • Ehud Havazelet • Bret Anthony Johnston • Claire Keegan • Sam Lipsyte • Rebecca Makkai • Elizabeth McCracken • Ricardo Nuila • Joyce Carol Oates • Jess Row • George Saunders • Mark Slouka

Author : Lori Ostlund
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820336882
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bigness of the World written by Lori Ostlund and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set among such divergent places as a small-town in Minnesota, an Albuquerque airport, A Belizean café and a hotel swimming pool in Java, Ostlund's Flannery O'Connor Award (2008) winning debut collection depicts sexually and socially repressed Americans. Men and women who wind up feeling displaced when they fail to escape the influence of their past; ineffectual parents, fathers and lovers who disappear, teachers who struggle to connect with their students, and lifelong obsessions with language.