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Prize Stories 1996

Author : William Abrahams
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 9780385481823
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Prize Stories 1996 written by William Abrahams and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past three decades, William Abrahams has selected the O. Henry Award winners. Building on a tradition that spans over three quarters of a century, The O. Henry Awards has been "widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction" (The Atlantic Monthly). Every year, Abrahams has chosen a diverse group of stories and writers to creat a collection that includes perennial favorites as well as an increasing number of lesser known writers, many of whom have gone on to become seminal voices in current American fiction. Prize Stories 1996 is both William Abrahams's thirtieth anniversary as Editor of this landmark collection and his last, which gives this collection a special resonance. The twenty or more stories selected for this honor each yhear are culled from a broad range of American magazines both large and small, offering the reader the full sweep and variety of today's fiction. As in previous years, Prize Stories 1996 concludes with a contributors' notes section including comments by the writers on the inspirations behind their stories, providing readers with a unique entrÚe into the writers' creative processes. Representing the excellence of contemporary fiction writing, these stories demonstrate the continuing strenghth and vitality of the American short story.

Prize Stories

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prize Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ship Fever

Author : Andrea Barrett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393316009
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Ship Fever written by Andrea Barrett and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996-11-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

The O. Henry Prize Stories 100th Anniversary Edition (2019)

Author : Laura Furman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 052556554X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The O. Henry Prize Stories 100th Anniversary Edition (2019) written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology gathers the twenty best new short stories published in the previous year. An Anchor Books Original. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019--continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence--contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. The winning writers are an impressive mix of celebrated names and new, emerging voices. Their stories evoke lives both near and distant, in settings ranging from Jamaica, Houston, and Hawaii to a Turkish coal mine and a drought-ridden Northwestern farm, and feature an engaging array of characters, including Laotian refugees, a Colombian kidnap victim, an eccentric Irish schoolteacher, a woman haunted by a house that cleans itself, and a strangely long-lived rabbit. The uniformly breathtaking stories are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines. List of 2019 winners: Tessa Hadley John Keeble Moira McCavana Rachel Kondo Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Stephanie Reents Alexia Arthurs Valerie O’Riordan Patricia Engel Kenan Orhan Sarah Hall Bryan Washington Isabella Hammad Weike Wang Caoilinn Hughes Souvankham Thammavongsa Liza Ward Doua Thao Alexander MacLeod John Edgar Wideman Prize Jurors 2019: Lynn Freed, Elizabeth Strout, Lara Vapynar

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018

Author : Laura Furman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525436596
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired their stories, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. "The Tomb of Wrestling," Jo Ann Beard, Tin House "Counterblast," Marjorie Celona, The Southern Review "Nayla," Youmna Chlala, Prairie Schooner "Lucky Dragon," Viet Dinh, Ploughshares "Stop ’n’ Go," Michael Parker, New England Review "Past Perfect Continuous," Dounia Choukri, Chicago Quarterly Review "Inversion of Marcia," Thomas Bolt, n+1 "Nights in Logar," Jamil Jan Kochai, A Public Space "How We Eat," Mark Jude Poirier, Epoch "Deaf and Blind," Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker "Why Were They Throwing Bricks?," Jenny Zhang, n+1 "An Amount of Discretion," Lauren Alwan, The Southern Review "Queen Elizabeth," Brad Felver, One Story "The Stamp Collector," Dave King, Fence "More or Less Like a Man," Michael Powers, The Threepenny Review "The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies," Jo Lloyd, Zoetrope "Up Here," Tristan Hughes, Ploughshares "The Houses That Are Left Behind," Brenda Walker, The Kenyon Review "We Keep Them Anyway," Stephanie A. Vega, The Threepenny Review "Solstice," Anne Enright, The New Yorker Prize Jury for 2018: Fiona McFarlane, Ottessa Moshfegh, Elizabeth Tallent

Reading in the Dark

Author : Seamus Deane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375700234
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Reading in the Dark written by Seamus Deane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-02-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize Winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award and International Award "A swift and masterful transformation of family griefs and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and heartbreaking. If Issac Babel had been born in Derry, he might have written this sudden, brilliant book." --Seamus Heaney Hugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend--the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly--reveals its transfixing reality. Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again; the lost uncle, Eddie, present on every page; the family house "as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth, closely designed, with someone sobbing at the heart of it." Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact. Breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable, Reading in the Dark is one of the finest books about growing up--in Ireland or anywhere--that has ever been written.

Katha Prize Stories

Author : Geeta Dharmarajan
Publisher : Katha
ISBN 13 : 9788185586748
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (867 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 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Varied As Variety Itself, This Collection Brings To You Trenchant, Very Indian Fictions That Explore Personal Joys And Sorrows, Friendships And Alienations, The Everyday Tenderness And Harshness Of Life.

Mr. Ives' Christmas

Author : Oscar Hijuelos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781538722275
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Ives' Christmas written by Oscar Hijuelos and published by . This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed "the deepest and best" of Pulitzer-Prize winning author Oscar Hijuelos's novels, this acclaimed national bestseller examines faith lost and regained after a businessman's son violently dies at Christmas (New York TimesBook Review). In 1960s New York, Edward Ives is a picture of the American dream. Adopted as a child by a widowed print shop manager, who helped him cultivate a love of drawing, he now has a successful career as an illustrator in advertising, a beautiful home with his wife and muse, Annie, and two loving children. But this idyllic life is brutally wrenched away when Ives's 17-year-old son, Robert--who has just decided to commit his life to the priesthood--is murdered by another teenage boy just before Christmas, a crime of opportunity that proves to be as random as it is senseless. Consumed by grief, Ives withdraws from the world. Grappling with a loss of faith--a force that has guided him steadfastly since childhood--he starts to question every aspect of human existence, contemplating what it really means to live an emotionally and spiritually fulfilling life. This mourning consumes him--until he takes on the monumental task of working through his suffering, and ultimately faces his son's killer. Mr. Ives' Christmas is a tender, passionate story of a man working to rediscover what it means to love, forgive, and live after unspeakable tragedy. It is another tremendous achievement from one of America's most talented writers. Includes a Reading Group Guide.

A Spell of Winter

Author : Helen Dunmore
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802138767
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book A Spell of Winter written by Helen Dunmore and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine and her brother, Rob, don't know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather, they create a refuge against their family's dark secrets as the outside world moves towards the First World War. As time passes their sibling love deepens and crosses into forbidden territory.

The Best Short Stories 2022

Author : Valeria Luiselli
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0593467558
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Best Short Stories 2022 written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lorrie Moore, Olga Tokarczuk, Joseph O'Neill, and Samanta Schweblin. "Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." —The Atlantic Monthly Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Valeria Luiselli has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including stories in translation from Bengali, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Luiselli, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL. THE WINNING STORIES: “Screen Time,” by Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell “The Wolves of Circassia,” by Daniel Mason “Mercedes’s Special Talent,” by Tere Dávila, translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed “Rainbows,” by Joseph O’Neill “A Way with Bea,” by Shanteka Sigers “Seams,” by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft “The Little Widow from the Capital,” by Yohanca Delgado “Lemonade,” by Eshkol Nevo, translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston “Breastmilk,” by ‘Pemi Aguda “The Old Man of Kusumpur,” by Amar Mitra, translated from the Bengali by Anish Gupta “Where They Always Meet,” by Christos Ikonomou, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich “Fish Stories,” by Janika Oza “Horse Soup,” by Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russian by Max Lawton “Clean Teen,” by Francisco González “Dengue Boy,” by Michel Nieva, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer “Zikora,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “Apples,” by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson “Warp and Weft,” by David Ryan “Face Time,” by Lorrie Moore “An Unlucky Man,” by Samanta Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

Last Orders

Author : Graham Swift
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330518222
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Last Orders written by Graham Swift and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.Celebrating 40 years of outstanding international writing, this is one of the essential Picador novels reissued in a beautiful new series style.

Independence Day

Author : Richard Ford
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408835088
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Independence Day written by Richard Ford and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an 'Existence Period' - selling real estate in New Jersey and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life. Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of extraordinary empathy and perception.

The Giant's House

Author : Elizabeth McCracken
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409039676
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Giant's House written by Elizabeth McCracken and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Every so often a novel comes along which transcends whimsy with the beauty of its writing. Elizabeth McCracken's small masterpiece is one of these' Guardian A powerful and unique story about connection, showing that miracles can happen – even across a library circulation desk. The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod twenty-eight year old librarian Peggy Cort feels as if love and life have stood her up. That is, until the day James Carlson Sweatt – the 'over-tall' eleven year old boy who's the talk of the town – walks into her library and changes her life for ever. Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the circulation desk, Peggy and James are odd candidates for friendship. In James, Peggy discovers the one person who's ever really understood her, and as he grows – six foot five at age twelve, then seven foot, then eight – so does their most singular romance. *Perfect for readers who loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine*

Prize Stories

Author : William Miller Abrahams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780307276889
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Prize Stories written by William Miller Abrahams and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

William Cooper's Town

Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525566996
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book William Cooper's Town written by Alan Taylor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book. William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a wealthy land speculator and U.S. congressman in what had until lately been the wilderness of upstate New York, but his high-handed style of governing resulted in his fall from power and political disgrace. His son James Fenimore Cooper became one of this country’s first popular novelists with a book, The Pioneers, that tried to come to terms with his father’s failure and imaginatively reclaim the estate he had lost. In William Cooper’s Town, Alan Taylor dramatizes the class between gentility and democracy that was one of the principal consequences of the American Revolution, a struggle that was waged both at the polls and on the pages of our national literature. Taylor shows how Americans resolved their revolution through the creation of new social reforms and new stories that evolved with the expansion of our frontier.

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.

We Others

Author : Steven Millhauser
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307701433
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book We Others written by Steven Millhauser and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination. • "A book of astonishingly beautiful and moving stories by one of America’s finest and most original writers.” —Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books Steven Millhauser’s fiction has consistently, and to dazzling effect, dissolved the boundaries between reality and fantasy, waking life and dreams, the past and the future, darkness and light, love and lust. The stories gathered here unfurl in settings as disparate as nineteenth-century Vienna, a contemporary Connecticut town, the corridors of a monstrous museum, and Thomas Edison’s laboratory, and they are inhabited by a wide-ranging cast of characters, including a knife thrower and teenage boys, ghosts and a cartoon cat and mouse. But all of the stories are united in their unfailing power to surprise and enchant. From the earliest to the stunning, previously unpublished novella-length title story—in which a man who is dead, but not quite gone, reaches out to two lonely women—Millhauser in this magnificent collection carves out ever more deeply his wondrous place in the American literary canon.