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O. Henry Prize Stories 2007

Edited by Laura Furman

Edited by Laura Furman

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Part of The O. Henry Prize Collection

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May 08, 2007 | ISBN 9780307276889

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About O. Henry Prize Stories 2007

An arresting collection of contemporary fiction at its best, these stories explore a vast range of subjects, from love and deception to war and the insidious power of class distinctions.

However clearly spoken, in voices sophisticated, cunning, or naive, here is fiction that consistently defies our expectations. Selected from thousands of stories in hundreds of literary magazines, the twenty prize-winning stories are accompanied by essays from each of the three eminent jurors on which stories they judged the best, and observations from all twenty prizewinners on what inspired them.

“The Room”

William Trevor

“The Scent of Cinnamon”

Charles Lambert

“Cherubs”

Justine Dymond

“Galveston Bay, 1826”

Eddie Chuculate

“The Gift of Years”

Vu Tran

“The Diarist”

Richard McCann

“War Buddies”

Joan Silber

“Djamilla”

Tony D’Souza

“In a Bear’s Eye”

Yannick Murphy

“Summer, with Twins”

Rebecca Curtis

“Mudder Tongue”

Brian Evenson

“Companion”

Sana Krasikov

“A Stone House”

Bay Anapol

“The Company of Men”

Jan Ellison

“City Visit”

Adam Haslett

“The Duchess of Albany”

Christine Schutt

“A New Kind of Gravity”

Andrew Foster Altschul

“Gringos”

Ariel Dorfman

“El Ojo de Agua”

Susan Straight

“The View from Castle Rock”

Alice Munro

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About Laura Furman

Laura Furman, series editor of The O. Henry Prize Stories since 2003, is the winner of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for her fiction. The author of several books, including the story collection The Mother Who… More about Laura Furman

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction | Literary Criticism

Paperback | $17.00
Published by Anchor
May 08, 2007 | 384 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307276889

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Praise

“Widely regarded as the nation’s most prestigious awards for short fiction” —The Atlantic Monthly

Table Of Contents

Introduction Laura Furman, Series Editor

The Room
William Trevor, The New Yorker

The Scent of Cinnamon
Charles Lambert, One Story

Cherubs
Justine Dymond, The Massachusetts Review

Galveston Bay, 1826
Eddie Chuculate, Manoa

The Gift of Years
Vu Tran, Fence

The Diarist
Richard McCann, Bloom

War Buddies
Joan Silber, Land-Grant College Review

Djamilla
Tony D’Souza, Tin House

In a Bear’s Eye
Yannick Murphy, McSweeney’s Quarterly

Summer, with Twins
Rebecca Curtis, Harper’s Magazine

Mudder Tongue
Brian Everson, McSweeney’s Quarterly

Companion
Sana Krasikov, The New Yorker

A Stone House
Bay Anapol, Manoa

The Company of Men
Jan Ellison, New England Review

City Visit
Adam Haslett, The Atlantic Monthly

The Duchess of Albany
Christine Schutt, Noon

A New Kind of Gravity
Andrew Foster Altschul, StoryQuarterly

Gringos
Ariel Dorfman, Subtropics

El Ojo de Agua
Susan Straight, Zoetrope

The View from Castle Rock
Alice Munro, The New Yorker

Reading THE O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES 2007
Charles D’Ambrosio on “The Room” by William Trevor
Ursula K. Le Guin on “Galveston Bay, 1826” by Eddie Chuculate
Lily Tuck on “The Room” by William Trevor

Writing THE O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES 2007
The Writers on Their Work

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