Prize stories, 1981 :  the O. Henry Awards / 
 O. Henry Awards 
edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. 
 - Garden City, N.Y. :  Doubleday,  1981. 
 - 309 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>The shawl (First Prize) / Cynthia Ozick -- Interior space / John Irving -- The runner / James Tabor -- St. Stephen's Green / Kay Boyle -- The women who walk / Nancy Huddleston Packer -- Between the lines / Lee Smith -- Snow / Alice Adams -- In the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff -- Hope of Zion / Sandra Hollin Flowers -- The abortion / Alice Walker -- The last abandonment / Jack Matthews -- Advent / Marian Novick -- The man who loved Levittown / W. D. Wetherell -- Mutilated woman / Joyce Carol Oates -- Baby / Ivy Goodman -- The Waltz Dream / Barbara Reid -- The phototropic woman / Annabel Thomas -- Brief lives in California / John L'Heureux -- Isaac and the undertaker's daughter / Steve Stern --- The separation / Annette T. Rottenberg -- World's End / Paul Theroux. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0385159773 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, American.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS648.S5  / P74 1981