"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 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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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.
Add this copy of Prize Stories 1986: the O. Henry Awards to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Doubleday & Company.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Introduction by William Abrahams. Age-toning on topedges of boards, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with short tear on front panel topedge. Containing stories by Alice Walker, Stuart Dybek, Greg Johnson, John L'Heureux, Joyce R. Kornblatt, Ward Just, Peter Meinke, Bobbie Ann Mason, Merrill Joan Gerber, Gordon Lish, Peter Cameron, Alice Adams, Deborah Eisenberg, Anthony DiFranco, Jeanne Wilmot, Elizabeth Spencer, Irvin Faust, Stephanie Vaughn, and Joyce Carol Oates.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. 274pp. Slight offsetting on endpapers and boards, very good in a very good dust jacket with slight tanning to the flaps and modest edgewear. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Containing stories by Alice Walker, Stuart Dybek, Greg Johnson, John L'Heureux, Joyce R. Kornblatt, Ward Just, Peter Meinke, Bobbie Ann Mason, Merrill Joan Gerber, Gordon Lish, Peter Cameron, Alice Adams, Deborah Eisenberg, Anthony DiFranco, Jeanne Wilmot, Elizabeth Spencer, Irvin Faust, Stephanie Vaughn and Joyce Carol Oates.
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Used: Very good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Contemporary FictionVery good quality with clean pages. Dust jackets with creasing.
Add this copy of Prize Stories 1986: the O. Henry Awards (First Edition) to cart. $40.00, like new condition, Sold by Dan Pope Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from WEST Hartford, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Doubleday, Garden City / New York.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Doubleday, Garden City/New York, 1986. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($17.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Contributions from Alice Walker (the first-prize winner, with "Kindred Spirits"), Joyce Carol Oates ("Master Race, " with Special Award for Continuing Achievement), Stuart Dybek, Greg Johnson, John L'Heureux, Joyce R. Kornblatt, Ward Just, Peter Meinke, Bobbie Ann Mason, Merrill Joan Gerber, Gordon Lish, Peter Cameron, Alice Adams, Deborah Eisenberg, Anthony DiFranco, Jeanne Wilmot, Elizabeth Spencer, Irvin Faust, and Stephanie Vaughn. Anthologies.
Add this copy of Prize Stories 1986: the O. Henry Awards to cart. $55.12, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Doubleday.
