Prize stories, 1999 : the O. Henry awards /
Prize stories, 1999 : the O. Henry awards /
O. Henry awards
edited and with an introduction by Larry Dark.
- New York : Doubleday, c1999.
- xviii, 443 p. ; 21 cm.
"The best of 1999"--Cover.
A nurse's story (First Prize; introduced by Sherman Alexie) / Peter Baida -- Merry-go-sorry (Second Prize; introduced by Stephen King) / Cary Holladay -- Save the reaper (Third Prize; introduced by Lorrie Moore) / Alice Munro -- The depressed person / David Foster Wallace -- Cataract / Pam Houston -- Sea oak / George Saunders -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Nixon under the bodhi tree / Gerlad Reilly -- Mister brother / Michael Cunningham -- Moon / Chaim Potok -- Burning / Robert Schirmer -- Watching girls play / W.D. Wetherell -- Afterbirth / Sheila M. Schwartz -- Son of the wolfman / Michael Chabon -- Miracle boy / Pinckney Benedict -- The underground gardens / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Fork used in eating Reverend Baker / Kiana Davenport -- Sign / Charlotte Forbes -- A tortoise for the queen of Tonga / Julia Whitty -- The mud below / Annie Proulx.
0385493584
Short stories, American.
PS648.S5 / P74 1999
"The best of 1999"--Cover.
A nurse's story (First Prize; introduced by Sherman Alexie) / Peter Baida -- Merry-go-sorry (Second Prize; introduced by Stephen King) / Cary Holladay -- Save the reaper (Third Prize; introduced by Lorrie Moore) / Alice Munro -- The depressed person / David Foster Wallace -- Cataract / Pam Houston -- Sea oak / George Saunders -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Nixon under the bodhi tree / Gerlad Reilly -- Mister brother / Michael Cunningham -- Moon / Chaim Potok -- Burning / Robert Schirmer -- Watching girls play / W.D. Wetherell -- Afterbirth / Sheila M. Schwartz -- Son of the wolfman / Michael Chabon -- Miracle boy / Pinckney Benedict -- The underground gardens / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Fork used in eating Reverend Baker / Kiana Davenport -- Sign / Charlotte Forbes -- A tortoise for the queen of Tonga / Julia Whitty -- The mud below / Annie Proulx.
0385493584
Short stories, American.
PS648.S5 / P74 1999