The O. Henry Prize stories 2019 / chosen and with an introduction by Laura Furman ; with essays by jurors Lynn Freed, Elizabeth Strout, Lara Vapnyar on the stories they admire most.

Contributor Furman, Laura, compiler, writer of introduction.

Edition Statement:100th anniversary edition.

ImprintNew York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]

Descriptionxxxviii, 457 pages ; 21 cm

Note:"The best short stories of the year"--Cover.

Note:Funny little snake / Tessa Hadley -- Synchronicity / John Keeble -- No Spanish / Moira McCavana -- Girl of few seasons / Rachel Kondo -- Julia and Sunny / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum -- Unstuck / Stephanie Reents -- Mermaid River / Alexia Arthurs -- Bad girl / Valerie O'Riordan -- Aguacero / Patricia Engel -- Soma / Kenan Orhan -- Goodnight nobody / Sarah Hall -- 610 North, 610 West / Bryan Washington -- Mr. Can'aan / Isabella Hammad -- Omakase / Weike Wang -- Prime / Caoilinn Hughes -- Slingshot / Souvankham Thammavongsa -- The shrew tree / Liza Ward -- Flowers for America / Doua Thao -- Lagomorph / Alexander MacLeod -- Maps and ledgers / John Edgar Wideman -- Reading the O. Henry Prize stories: the jurors on their favorites -- Writing the O. Henry Prize stories 2019: the writers on their work.

Note:"The O. Henry Prize stories 2019 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, by a diverse and international mix of writers, selected from the thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year."--Back cover.

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