Prize stories, 1987 : the O. Henry awards / O. Henry awards edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. - Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1987. - xiii, 320 p. ; 22 cm.

Fleur / Louise Erdrich -- The children's wing / Joyce Johnson -- The darkness of love / Robert Boswell -- Tide pools / Alice Adams -- Blight / Stuart Dybek -- The Janeites / James Lott -- Basil from her garden / Donald Barthelme -- The Island of Ven / Gina Berriault -- The village / Jim Pitzen -- What feels like the world / Richard Bausch -- Monitor / Millicent Dillon -- Big Dog / Norman Lavers -- Lady of Spain / Robert Taylor, Jr. -- The singing well / Helen Norris -- Midrash on happiness / Grace Paley -- Taking care / Lewis Horne -- Up home / Warren Wallace -- Ancient airs, voices / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Interpretations of Dreams by Sigmund Freud : a story / Daniel Stern -- I get by / Mary Robison.

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Short stories, American.

PS648.S5 / P74 1987