Prize stories, 1983 : the O. Henry awards /
Prize stories, 1983 : the O. Henry awards /
O. Henry awards
edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams.
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1983.
- xi, 344 p. ; 22 cm.
A small, good thing (First Prize) / Raymond Carver -- My Warszawz (Second Prize) / Joyce Carol Oates -- Victrola (Third Prize) / Wright Morris -- Melanie and the Purple People Eaters / Irvin Faust -- Jean-Pierre / Elizabeth Spencer -- If a woodchuck could chuck wood / W.D. Wetherell -- The city / John Updike -- When the Lord calls / Gloria Norris -- My life as a West African gray parrot / Leigh Buchanan Bienen -- Shards / David Jauss -- The only son of the doctor / Mary Gordon -- The ponoes / Peter Meinke -- Putting and gardening / William F. Van Wert -- Feasting / Elizabeth Benedict -- Slow-motion / Steven Schwartz -- Heartbeat / Linda Svensen -- Poor boy / Linda Lloyd -- The secret lives of dieters / Perri Klass -- The dogs in Renoir's garden / Gloria Whelan -- Work / David Plante.
0385181159
Short stories, American.
PS648.S5 / P74 1983
A small, good thing (First Prize) / Raymond Carver -- My Warszawz (Second Prize) / Joyce Carol Oates -- Victrola (Third Prize) / Wright Morris -- Melanie and the Purple People Eaters / Irvin Faust -- Jean-Pierre / Elizabeth Spencer -- If a woodchuck could chuck wood / W.D. Wetherell -- The city / John Updike -- When the Lord calls / Gloria Norris -- My life as a West African gray parrot / Leigh Buchanan Bienen -- Shards / David Jauss -- The only son of the doctor / Mary Gordon -- The ponoes / Peter Meinke -- Putting and gardening / William F. Van Wert -- Feasting / Elizabeth Benedict -- Slow-motion / Steven Schwartz -- Heartbeat / Linda Svensen -- Poor boy / Linda Lloyd -- The secret lives of dieters / Perri Klass -- The dogs in Renoir's garden / Gloria Whelan -- Work / David Plante.
0385181159
Short stories, American.
PS648.S5 / P74 1983