The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006: The Best Stories of the Year - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400095395 ISBN 13: 9781400095391

Publisher: Anchor Books, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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From the Inside Flap:

Mudlavia
Elizabeth Stuckey-French
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The Brief History of the Dead
Kevin Brockmeier
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The Golden Era of Heartbreak
Michael Parker
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The Hurt Man
Wendell Berry
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The Tutor
Nell Freudenberger
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Fantasy for Eleven Fingers
Ben Fountain
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The High Divide
Charles D'Ambrosio
Desolation
Gail Jones
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A Rich Man
Edward P. Jones
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Dues
Dale Peck
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Speckle Trout
Ron Rash
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Sphinxes
Timothy Crouse
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Grace
Paula Fox
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Snowbound
Liza Ward
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Tea
Nancy Reisman
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Christie
Caitlin Macy
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Refuge in London
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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The Drowned Woman
Frances De Pontes Peebles
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The Card Trick
Tessa Hadley
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What You Pawn I Will Redeem
Sherman Alexie"

About the Author:

Laura Furman's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and other magazines. She is the founding editor of the highly regarded American Short Fiction (three-time finalist for the American Magazine Award). A professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, she teaches in the graduate James A. Michener Center for writers. She lives in Austin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1400095395
• ISBN 13: 9781400095391
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 361
• Editor: Laura Furman