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The O. Henry prize stories 2017, chosen and with an introduction by Laura Furman ; with essays by jurors David Bradley, Elizabeth McCracken, Brad Watson on the stories they admire most

eng

Includes bibliographical references

no index present

short stories

The O. Henry prize stories 2017

bibliography

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chosen and with an introduction by Laura Furman ; with essays by jurors David Bradley, Elizabeth McCracken, Brad Watson on the stories they admire most

"The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories evoke lives both near and distant: a Californian teenager in rehab, a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka, young female factory workers in Bangladesh, a retired couple in Nova Scotia. Anchored by situations as varied and fraught as a car crash in the Italian mountains, a domestic deception unmasked in postwar Germany, and an eerie backyard confrontation between a dog and a cobra, the stories here are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favourites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and a comprehensive resource list of the many magazines and journals, both large and small, that publish short fiction."--Publisher description

O. Henry prize storiesO. Henry prize stories : the best short stories of the year 2017