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Prize stories, 1979 : the O. Henry Awards / O. Henry awards edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. - Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, c1979. - 334 p. ; 22 cm.

Getting serious (First Prize) / Gordon Weaver -- Travel stories (Second Prize) / Henry Bromell -- I want you, I need you, I love you (Third Prize) / Julie Hecht -- Shy bearers / Lester Goldberg -- The summer game / Steve Heller -- The quality of light in Maine / Fred Pfeil -- The passion of Marco Z / Anne Leaton -- Coon hunt / Annabel Thomas -- Visiting the point / Thomas W. Molyneux -- In the autumn of the year / Joyce Carol Oates -- Passion? / Jonathan Baumbach -- My father's jokes / Patricia Zelver -- The smallest part / Herbert Gold -- Du Cote de Chez Britz / Herny Van Dyke -- Mrs. Darcy meets the blue-eyed stranger at the beach / Lee Smith -- The derby hopeful / Anthony Caputi -- Rough strife / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Oh, Joseph, I'm so tired / Richard Yates -- Travelling / Mary Peterson -- Xmas / Thomas M. Disch -- The girl across the room / Alice Adams.

ISBN: 0385142196

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Short stories, American.

LC Class. No.: PS648.S5 / P74 1979