The O. Henry Awards prize stories, 2006 /
Prize stories 2006.
edited and with an introduction by Laura Furman.
- New York : Anchor Books, 2006.
- xviii, 361 p. ; 21 cm.
"An Anchor Books original"--T.p. verso.
Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones -- You go when you can no longer stay / Jackie Kay -- Mule killers / Lydia Peele -- The broad estates of death / Paula Fox -- The pelvis series / Neela Vaswani -- Conceived / David Lawrence Morse -- The dressmaker's child / William Trevor -- Disquisition on tears / Stephanie Reents -- Sault Ste. Marie / David Means -- Unction / Karen Brown -- '80s lilies / Terese Svoboda -- Passion / Alice Munro -- The center of the world / George Makana Clark -- Wolves / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- Girls I know / Douglas Trevor -- The plague of doves / Louise Erdich -- Famine / Xu Xi -- Puffed rice and meatballs / Lara Vapnyar -- Letters in the snow--for kind strangers and unborn children--for the ones lost and most beloved / Melanie Rae Thon -- Window / Deborah Eisenberg.
1400095395 (pbk.)
American fiction--20th century. Short stories, American.