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Zusatztext High praise for Prize Stories 1999 : " Prize Stories is eerier! broodier! chancier! and ultimately more alive to the genre's exhilarating unpredictability [than The Best American Short Stories ]."-- Entertainment Weekly "Interesting and unconventional."-- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Informationen zum Autor Larry Dark Klappentext An Anchor Original The 80th anniversary edition of "the nation's most prestigious awards for the short story."--The Atlantic Monthly Established early in the last century as a memorial to O. Henry, throughout its history this annual collection has consistently offered a remarkable sampling of contemporary short stories. Each year stories are chosen from large and small literary magazines and a panel of distinguished writers is enlisted to award the top prizes. The result is a superb collection of twenty inventive, full-bodied stories representing the very best in American and Canadian fiction. Zusammenfassung An Anchor Original The 80th anniversary edition of "the nation's most prestigious awards for the short story."-- The Atlantic Monthly Established early in the last century as a memorial to O. Henry! throughout its history this annual collection has consistently offered a remarkable sampling of contemporary short stories. Each year stories are chosen from large and small literary magazines and a panel of distinguished writers is enlisted to award the top prizes. The result is a superb collection of twenty inventive! full-bodied stories representing the very best in American and Canadian fiction.
