Prize Stories 2000

The O. Henry Awards

Edited by Larry Dark
Paperback
$23.00 US
On sale Sep 12, 2000 | 432 Pages | 978-0-385-49877-7
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 the top prizes. The result is a superb collection of twenty inventive, full-bodied stories representing the very best in American and Canadian fiction.

"Prize Stories is eerier, broodier, chancier, and ultimately more alive to the genre's exhilarating unpredictability [than The Best American Short Stories]."--Entertainment Weekly

CONTENTS

Weight by John Edgar Wideman
The Man with the Lapdog by Beth Lordan
The Deacon by Mary Gordon
Plains of Abraham by Russell Banks
Flush by Judy Budnitz
These Hands by Kevin Brockmeier
Salve Regina by Melissa Pritchard
The Smallest People Alive by Keith Banner
Bones of the Inner Ear by Kiana Davenport
The Fool's Proxy by J. Robert Lennon
He's at the Office by Allan Gurganus
The Gilgul of Park Avenue by Nathan Englander
Theories of Rain by Andrea Barrett
Whileaway by Jeannette Bertles
Rose by John Biguenet
The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert
Easy Pickings by Tim Gautreaux
The Beautiful Days by Michael Byers
Watch the Animals by Alice Elliott Dark
Kindling by Raymond Carver

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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 the top prizes. The result is a superb collection of twenty inventive, full-bodied stories representing the very best in American and Canadian fiction.

"Prize Stories is eerier, broodier, chancier, and ultimately more alive to the genre's exhilarating unpredictability [than The Best American Short Stories]."--Entertainment Weekly

CONTENTS

Weight by John Edgar Wideman
The Man with the Lapdog by Beth Lordan
The Deacon by Mary Gordon
Plains of Abraham by Russell Banks
Flush by Judy Budnitz
These Hands by Kevin Brockmeier
Salve Regina by Melissa Pritchard
The Smallest People Alive by Keith Banner
Bones of the Inner Ear by Kiana Davenport
The Fool's Proxy by J. Robert Lennon
He's at the Office by Allan Gurganus
The Gilgul of Park Avenue by Nathan Englander
Theories of Rain by Andrea Barrett
Whileaway by Jeannette Bertles
Rose by John Biguenet
The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert
Easy Pickings by Tim Gautreaux
The Beautiful Days by Michael Byers
Watch the Animals by Alice Elliott Dark
Kindling by Raymond Carver