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. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0385142196 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, American.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS648.S5  / P74 1979