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245 0 4 _aThe Pen/ O. Henry Prize stories.
_n2012 /
_cchosen and with an introduction by Laura Furman ; with essays on the stories they admire most by jurors A. M. Homes, Manuel MunÌoz, and Christine Schutt.
260 _aNew York :
_bAnchor Books,
_cc2012.
300 _axxvi, 403 p. ;
_c21 cm.
500 _a"The O. Henry Prize stories [was] ... retitled The Pen/ O. Henry Prize stories in 2009." -- p. vi.
505 0 _aIntroduction / Laura Furman -- Uncle Rock / Dagoberto Gilb -- The Vandercook / Alice Mattison -- Leak / Sam Ruddick -- Nothing living lives alone / Wendell Berry -- The first wife / Christine Sneed -- A birth in the woods / Kevin Wilson -- Naima / Hisham Matar -- Mickey Mouse / Karl Taro Greenfeld -- Things said or done / Ann Packer -- East of the West / Miroslav Penkov -- A brush / John Berger -- Kindness / Yiyun Li -- Phantoms / Steven Millhauser -- Boys Town / Jim Shepard -- The hare's mask / Mark Slouka -- Eyewall / Lauren Groff -- Rothko eggs / Keith Ridgway -- The deep / Anthony Doerr -- The woman who lived in the house / Salvatore Scibona -- Corrie / Alice Munro -- Reading the PEN/O. Henry Prize stories 2012 -- Writing the PEN/O. Henry Prize stories 2012.
520 _aPresents a collection of short stories judged to be the best in America and Canada for 2011, along with essays by three distinguished writers on their favorite pieces, and commentary from the twenty prize winners.
650 0 _aShort stories, American.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y21st century.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xSocial life and customs
_vFiction.
655 7 _aShort stories.
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700 1 _aFurman, Laura.
740 0 _aO. Henry Prize stories.
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