The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005

by Laura Furman (Editor)

O. Henry Prize Stories (2005)

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Presents twenty O. Henry Prize-winning short stories, including works by Wendell Berry, Caitlin Macy, and Sherman Alexie, and includes comments by the authors and the volume's story jurors.

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4 reviews
Standouts in this volume:

Mudlavia (Elizabeth Stuckey-French)
The Tutor (Nell Freudenberger)
Fantasy for Eleven Fingers (Ben Fountain)
Tea (Nancy Reisman)
The Drowned Woman (Frances de Pontes Peebles)
The Card Trick (Tessa Hadley)
What You Pawn I Will Redeem (Sherman Alexie)
My favorite story in here: "Speckle Trout," by Ron Rash.
Standouts in this volume:

Mudlavia (Elizabeth Stuckey-French)
The Tutor (Nell Freudenberger)
Fantasy for Eleven Fingers (Ben Fountain)
Tea (Nancy Reisman)
The Drowned Woman (Frances de Pontes Peebles)
The Card Trick (Tessa Hadley)
What You Pawn I Will Redeem (Sherman Alexie)
Short stories. Read all of them I think. really enjoyed "What you pawn I will redeem" / Sherman Alexie

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Alexie, Sherman (Contributor)
Berry, Wendell (Contributor)
Brockmeier, Kevin (Contributor)
Crouse, Timothy (Contributor)
D'Ambrosio, Charles (Contributor)
Fountain, Ben (Contributor)
Fox, Paula (Contributor)
Freudenberger, Nell (Contributor)
Hadley, Tessa (Contributor)
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (Contributor)
Jones, Edward P. (Contributor)
Jones, Gail (Contributor)
Macy, Caitlin (Contributor)
Parker, Michael (Contributor)
Peck, Dale (Contributor)
Rash, Ron (Contributor)
Reisman, Nancy (Contributor)
Ward, Liza (Contributor)

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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005
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Fiction and Literature
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813.010806Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in EnglishBy typeShort fiction
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PZ1 .O11Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction in English
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