Prize stories, 1989 : the O. Henry awards / O. Henry awards edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. - New York : Doubleday, c1989. - xii, 387 p. ; 22 cm.

Peacocks (First Prize) / Ernest J. Finney -- House hunting (Second Prize) / Joyce Carol Oates -- Edie: a life (Third Prize) / Harriet Doerr -- The sky fading upward to yellow: a footnote to literary history / Jean Ross -- CV10 / Starkey Flythe, Jr. -- After you've gone / Alice Adams -- History / Frances Sherwood -- Death of a duke / Banning K. Lary -- Sinking house / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- The hit / Catherine Petroski -- American express / James Salter -- Here and there / David Foster Wallace -- Ile Seche / Susan Minot -- Wrong stories / Millicent Dillon --Clandestine acts / Charles Simmons -- Avid / John Casey -- To be / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -- The watch / Rick Bass -- Unstable ground / Ellen Herman --Child in the leaves / Charles Dickinson.

038524634X (pbk.)


Short stories, American.

PS648.S5 / P74 1989