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Twenty of the finest short stories published during the past year are collected in this edition of the award-winning literary series, which features the best in short fiction from magazines and journals across the country.
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Born in 1919, William Abrahams published four successful novels and a number of poems before finding his true calling as an editor. He presided over the O. Henry Awards for more than 30 years starting in 1965. Abrahams also worked as the west coast editor of Atlantic Monthly Press and collaborated on nonfiction books with his partner, Peter Stansky. He passed away in 1998.
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The first prize in this 67th O. Henry Memorial Award omnibus is shared by two spare, unsentimental, authoritative first-person narratives that breathe life, respectively, into a Chippewa legend (Louise Erdrich's "Fleur") and a young boy's painful coming of age in a children's hospital ward (Joyce Johnson's "The Children's Wing"). Polished pieces by veteran short-story writers Alice Adams, Donald Barthelme, Mary Robison and Joyce Carol Oates are overshadowed by the sheer energy and intensity of Robert Boswell's "The Darkness of Love," which describes a man's self-hating, imprisoning affair with his wife's sister, and Jim Pitzen's "The Village," a graphic, tense and ultimately wrenching tale of a loving friendship between two American soldiers in Vietnam. Some stellar selections focus on aging, including "Big Dog" by Norman Lavers, which keenly observes a long-standing symbiotic marriage, Helen Norris's "The Singing Well" and "What Feels Like the World," by Richard Bausch, both of which beautifully depict grandfather-granddaughter relationships. Abrahams has edited the O. Henry anthologies since 1967.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0385235941
- ISBN 13 9780385235945
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
- EditorWilliam Abrahams
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