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Prize Stories 1990

Author : William Abrahams
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 9780385264990
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Prize Stories 1990 written by William Abrahams and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1990 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Widely regarded as the nation’s most prestigious awards for short fiction”—The Atlantic Monthly The O. Henry Prize Stories 1990 gathers 20 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. Stories include: Leo E. Litwak “The Eleventh Edition” (first prize) Peter Matthiessen “Lumumba Lives” (second prize) Lore Segal “The Reverse Bug” (third prize) Joyce Carol Oates “Heat” Carolyn Osborn “The Grands” James P. Blaylock “Unidentified Objects” Jane Brown Gillette “Sins Against Animals” Julie Schumacher “The Private Life of Robert Schumann” Joanne Greenberg “Elizabeth Baird” Alice Adams “1940: Fall” T. Coraghessan Boyle “The Ape Lady in Retirement” Marilyn Sides “The Island of the Mapmaker’s Wife” David Michael Kaplan “Stand” Meredith Steinbach “In Recent History” Claudia Smith Brinson “Einstein’s Daughter” Felicia Ackerman “The Forecasting Game” Reginald McKnight “The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas” Bruce Fleming “The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein” Devon Jersild “In Which John Imagines His Mind as a Pond” Janice Eidus “Vito Loves Geraldine” “One of the most welcome signs of the literary spring is the appearance of the annual O. Henry Awards collection.”—Los Angeles Times

Prize Stories 1990

Author : William Miller Abrahams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780385264983
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Prize Stories 1990 written by William Miller Abrahams and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Road

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307267458
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Road written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Prize Stories 2001

Author : Larry Dark
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307832287
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Prize Stories 2001 written by Larry Dark and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established early in the last century as a memorial to O. Henry, throughout its history this annual collection has consistently offered a remarkable sampling of contemporary short stories. Each year, stories are chosen from large and small literary magazines, and a panel of distinguished writers is enlisted to award top prizes. The result is a superb collection of seventeen inventive, full-bodied stories representing the very best in American and Canadian fiction. And in celebration of this distinguished literary form, Prize Stories 2001 a Special Award for Continuing Achievement is presented to Alice Munro. FIRST PRIZE MARY SWAN The Deep SECOND PRIZE DAN CHAON Big Me THIRD PRIZE ALICE MUNRO Floating Bridge FRED G. LEEBRON That Winter T.CORAGHESSAN BOYLE The Love of My Life JOYCE CAROL OATES The Girl with the Blackened Eye DAVID SCHICKLER The Smoker ANTONYA NELSON Female Trouble ELIZABETH GRAVER The Mourning Door PICKNEY BENEDICT Zog-19: A Scientific Romance RON CARLSON At the Jim Bridger LOUISE EDRICH Revival Road WILLIAM GAY The Paperhanger DALE PECK Bliss MURAD KALAM Bow Down GEORGE SAUNDERS Pastoralia ANDREA BARRETT Servants of the Map

Katha Prize Stories

Author : Geeta Dharmarajan
Publisher : Katha
ISBN 13 : 9788185586991
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Katha Prize Stories written by Geeta Dharmarajan and published by Katha. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Is In The Air And This Volume Celebrates It In 19 Different Ways.

And Their Children After Them

Author : Dale Maharidge
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And Their Children After Them written by Dale Maharidge and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1989 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the lives, fifty years later, of the Alabama families profiled in Agee and Walker's book about tenant farmers in the Depression, describing the impact of the loss of cotton as a livelihood on later generations.

Paradise

Author : Elena Castedo
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802196039
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Paradise written by Elena Castedo and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award-finalist: an “ingenious social satire” of the “arrogance, folly, injustice, and debauchery” among Spain’s privileged class (The Atlantic). Solita, a young daughter of refugees from Francisco Franco’s dictatorship in Spain, is whisked from the urban ghetto of Galmeda to El Topaz, the lush hacienda of a wealthy eccentric, which Solita’s mother assures her will be paradise. But behind its beautiful facade, El Topaz is a quagmire of social subterfuge, from its politicking adults to its spiteful children, and Solita finds herself alone in a glittery world where “you couldn’t trust anything. Or anybody. You had to navigate completely on your own.” Yet somehow, with only her sharp eye for separating truth from insincerity, Solita must weave her way through the social minefield of this supposed Spanish Shangri-La, searching for the happiness and harmony promised by her family’s liberation. Nominated for the National Book Award, Elena Castedo’s Paradise wickedly skewers the follies and falsehoods, conniving and cluelessness, of society’s so-called elite.

Chromos

Author : Felipe Alfau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781564782045
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Chromos written by Felipe Alfau and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chromos is one of the true masterpieces of post-World War II fiction. Written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990, it anticipated the fictional inventiveness of the writers who were to come along - Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Sorrentino, and Gaddis. Chromos is the American immigration novel par excellence. Its opening line is: "The moment one learns English, complications set in." Or, as the novel illustrates, the moment one comes to America, the complications set in. The cast of characters in this book are immigrants from Spain who have one leg in Spanish culture and the other in the confusing, warped, unfriendly New World of New York City, attempting to meld two worlds that just won't fit together. Wildly comic, Chromos is also strangely apocalyptic, moving towards point zero and utter darkness.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Author : Mark Haddon
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307371565
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time written by Mark Haddon and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling modern classic—both poignant and funny—narrated by a fifteen year old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. At fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbour’s dog Wellington impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer, and turns to his favourite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As Christopher tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, the narrative draws readers into the workings of Christopher’s mind. And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotions. The effect is dazzling, making for one of the freshest debut in years: a comedy, a tearjerker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.

The Children's Book

Author : A. S. Byatt
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307272958
Total Pages : 971 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Children's Book written by A. S. Byatt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 971 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession: a story that spans the Victorian era through World War I about a children’s author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the lives of her family and loved ones. “Majestic ... Dazzling ... Wonderful.” —The San Francisco Chronicle When children’s book author Olive Wellwood’s oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of a museum, she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. But the joyful bacchanals Olive hosts at her rambling country house—and the separate, private books she writes for each of her seven children—conceal more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. The Wellwoods’ personal struggles and hidden desires unravel against a breathtaking backdrop of the cliff-lined shores of England to Paris, Munich, and the trenches of the Somme, as the Edwardian period dissolves into World War I and Europe’s golden era comes to an end.

Katha Prize Stories

Author : Meenakshi Sharma
Publisher : Katha
ISBN 13 : 9788185586526
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Katha Prize Stories written by Meenakshi Sharma and published by Katha. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As The Nation Celebrates Its Fiftieth Year Of Independence, Katha Prize Stories Presents A Stunning, Often Electrifying, Perspective On The Plurality Of Experiences That Is India.

Dogeaters

Author : Jessica Hagedorn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014014904X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Dogeaters written by Jessica Hagedorn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An original, raw, and wild novel that has held its power and demands to be read.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and Winner of the American Book Award A classic and influential story—often considered “the quintessential Filipino American novel” (The Nation)—centered on the cultural and political stakes of life in Marcos-era Philippines Welcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines’ late dictator. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly, and gossip, storytelling, and extravagant behavior thrive. A wildly disparate group of characters—including movie stars and waiters, a young junkie and the richest man in the Philippines—becomes ensnared in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an assassination. At the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth.

Middle Passage

Author : Charles Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439125031
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Middle Passage written by Charles Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece—"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…heroic in proportion…fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review)—now with a new introduction from Stanley Crouch. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is lost in the underworld of 1830s New Orleans. Desperate to escape the city’s unscrupulous bill collectors and the pawing hands of a schoolteacher hellbent on marrying him, he jumps aboard the Republic, a slave ship en route to collect members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. Thus begins a voyage of metaphysical horror and human atrocity, a journey which challenges our notions of freedom, fate and how we live together. Peopled with vivid and unforgettable characters, nimble in its interplay of comedy and serious ideas, this dazzling modern classic is a perfect blend of the picaresque tale, historical romance, sea yarn, slave narrative and philosophical allegory. Now with a new introduction from renowned writer and critic Stanley Crouch, this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Middle Passage celebrates a cornerstone of the American canon and the masterwork of one of its most important writers. "Long after we’d stopped believe in the great American novel, along comes a spellbinding adventure story that may be just that" (Chicago Tribune).

Martin Dressler

Author : Steven Millhauser
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307763862
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Martin Dressler written by Steven Millhauser and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The author of Voices in the Night reveals the mesmerizing journey of an American dreamer as he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry. “This wonderful, wonder-full book is a fable and phantasmagoria of the sources of our century.” —The New York Times Book Review Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder and bolder, a sense of doom builds piece-by-hypnotic piece until this mesmerizing journey reaches its bitter-sweet conclusion.

The Shipping News

Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743519809
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Shipping News written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it’s easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph—in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover’s knot.

The View from Saturday

Author : E.L. Konigsburg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439132011
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The View from Saturday written by E.L. Konigsburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Newbery Medal–winning author of the beloved classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler comes four jewel-like short stories—one for each of the team members of an Academic Bowl team—that ask questions and demonstrate surprising answers. How had Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But were any of them true? How had she really chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan and Julian? And why did they make such a good team? It was a surprise to a lot of people when Mrs. Olinski’s team won the sixth-grade Academic Bowl contest at Epiphany Middle School. It was an even bigger surprise when they beat the seventh grade and the eighth grade, too. And when they went on to even greater victories, everyone began to ask: How did it happen? It happened at least partly because Noah had been the best man (quite by accident) at the wedding of Ethan’s grandmother and Nadia’s grandfather. It happened because Nadia discovered that she could not let a lot of baby turtles die. It happened when Ethan could not let Julian face disaster alone. And it happened because Julian valued something important in himself and saw in the other three something he also valued. Mrs. Olinski, returning to teaching after having been injured in an automobile accident, found that her Academic Bowl team became her answer to finding confidence and success. What she did not know, at least at first, was that her team knew more than she did the answer to why they had been chosen.

Prize Stories 1994

Author : William Abrahams
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 9780385471183
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Prize Stories 1994 written by William Abrahams and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Widely regarded as the nation’s most prestigious awards for short fiction.”—The Atlantic Monthly The O. Henry Prize Stories 1994 gathers 21 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. Stories include: Alison Baker “Better Be Ready ‘Bout Half Past Eight” (first prize) John Rolfe Gardiner “The Voyage Out” (second prize) Lorrie Moore “Terrific Mother” (third prize) Stuart Dybek “We Didn’t” Marlin Barton “Jeremiah’s Road” Kelly Cherry “Not the Phil Donahue Show” Elizabeth Cox “The Third of July” Terry Bain “Games” Amy Bloom “Semper Fidelis” Michael Fox “Rise and Shine” David McLean “Marine Corps Issue” Elizabeth Graver “The Boy Who Fell Forty Feet” Susan Starr Richards “The Hanging in the Foaling Barn” Janice Eidus “Pandora’s Box” Judith Ortiz Cofer “Nada” Mary Tannen “Elaine’s House” Dennis Trudell “Gook” Helen Fremont “Where She Was” Elizabeth Oness “The Oracle” Katherine L. Hester “Labor” Thomas E. Kennedy “Landing Zone X-Ray”