| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 319 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Lily / Jane Smiley -- Hot ice / Stuart Dybek -- In the white night / Ann Beattie -- The quarry / Helen Norris -- Lust / Susan Minot -- Bread and butter questions / Claude Koch -- Glimpse into another country / Wright Morris -- Saint Marie / Louise Erdrich -- Da Vinci is dead / R.C. Hamilton -- Daughter of the revolution / Joseph McElroy -- The Crow Woman / Steve Heller -- About Boston / Ward Just -- Sister / Tobias Wolff -- Holding on / Gloria Norris -- Homework / Peter Cameron -- Taking a chance on Jack / Ilene Raymond -- The axe, the axe, the axe / Eric Wilson -- The seasons / Joyce Carol Oates -- She should have died hereafter / Rolaine Hochstein -- The mango community / Josephine Jacobsen -- The other / John Updike. |
| Awards |
O. Henry Memorial Award, 1985. |
| Summary |
The annual O. Henry Awards are one of the highlights of the literary season. Here are 21 stories, the finest in contemporary American short fiction. This year's first prize has been jointly awarded to Jane Smiley for "Lily," and to Stuart Dybek for "Hot Ice." "Lily" is the moving, ironic story of a woman, beautiful, intelligent, but unloved, who seeks to find out why, for all her gifts, she remains untouched by intimacy or passion. "Hot Ice" is a tale of poetic darkness and intensity which revolves around the powerful local legend of a girl drowned and preserved in ice. These two stories represent opposite ends of the spectrum -- how much life the story can encompass. ISBN 0-385-19477-3 : $16.95. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01117064
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Abrahams, William Miller, 1919-1998.
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| Added Title |
O. Henry awards |
| ISBN |
0385194773 (hardcover) |
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9780385194778 (hardcover) |
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0385194781 (paperback) |
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9780385194785 (paperback) |
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