TY - BOOK AU - Abrahams,William Miller TI - Prize stories, 1979: the O. Henry Awards SN - 0385142196 AV - PS648.S5 P74 1979 PY - 1979/// CY - Garden City, N. Y. PB - Doubleday KW - Short stories, American N1 - 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 ER -