"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious award for short fiction."-- The Atlantic Monthly The O. Henry Prize Stories 1986 collects 19 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The 1986 winning story is Alice Walker's "Kindred Spirits," which profiles a young African-American woman after her divorce from her white husband. A Special Award for Continuing Achievement is given to Joyce Carol Oates for "Master Race" that narrates a shocking of a sexual assault ...
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"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious award for short fiction."-- The Atlantic Monthly The O. Henry Prize Stories 1986 collects 19 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The 1986 winning story is Alice Walker's "Kindred Spirits," which profiles a young African-American woman after her divorce from her white husband. A Special Award for Continuing Achievement is given to Joyce Carol Oates for "Master Race" that narrates a shocking of a sexual assault in Germany. Other stories include: Stuart Dybek "Pet Milk" Greg Johnson "Crazy Ladies" John L'Heureux "The Comedian" Joyce R. Kornblatt "Offerings" Ward Just "The Costa Brava, 1959" Peter Meinke "Uncle George and Uncle Stefan" Bobbie Anne Mason "Big Bertha Stories" Merrill Joan Gerber "'I Don't Believe This'" Gordon Lish "Resurrection" Peter Cameron "Excerpts from Swan Lake" Alice Adams "Molly's Dog" Deborah Eisenberg "Transaction in a Foreign Currency" Anthony DiFranco "The Garden of Redemption" Jeanne Wilmot "Dirt Angel" Elizabeth Spencer "The Cousins" Irvin Faust "The Year of the Hot Jock" Stephanie Vaughn "Kid MacArthur"
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p. lib copy with envelope, stamps, binding label on mylar cover Clean, tight inside pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cloth & Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition-Stated. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Clean, very little wear save top cor. bumps. Innards clean & tight. Usual lib. marks.
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Fine in VG+ jacket. Neither ex-lib nor remainder. Hardcover in teal jacket with black and violet titles, small 8vo. xi + 274pp. Fine/VG. Book is as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked. Jacket has light abrasion and surface loss at corners of spine ends and corners; 1/2: closed tear (internally taped) with associated 2" shallow crease upper front edge near corner; touches of surface loss to rear panel; all colors and titles clean and very bright. Jacket in Brodart.
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