Prize stories, 1970 : the O. Henry awards /
O. Henry awards
edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams.
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1970.
- xiii, 296 p. ; 22 cm.
The girl who sang with the Beatles (First Prize) / Robert Hemenway ("Stephen Patch") -- The biggest thing since Custer (Second Prize) / William Eastlake -- A cliff of fall (Third Prize) / Norval Rindfleisch -- It's cold out there / Perdita Buchan -- A modern development / George Blake -- Patients / Jonathan Strong -- Joe College -- H.E.F. Donohue -- Am Strande Von Tanger / James Salter -- My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud -- Nights at O'Rear's / Patricia Browning Griffith -- Saint John of the Hershey Kisses: 1964 / Tom Cole -- Bech takes pot luck / John Updike -- A day in operations / David Grinstead -- Theo's girl / Nancy Willard -- Of cabbages and kings / James Alan McPherson -- Unmailed, unwritten letters / Joyce Carol Oates -- How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates.