Reviews"Another installment [of] the esteemed literary award volume, full, as ever, of exemplary short fiction.... Essential for students of contemporary fiction." -- Kirkus Reviews "Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." -- The Atlantic Monthly, "Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." -- The Atlantic Monthly, "Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fi ction." - The Atlantic Monthly
Dewey Decimal823.010806
Table Of ContentYour Duck Is My Duck, by DEBORAH EISENBERG Sugarcane, by DEREK PALACIO The Summer People, by KELLY LINK Leaving Maverley, by ALICE MUNRO White Carnations, by POLLY ROSENWAIKE Sail, by TASH AW Anecdotes, by ANN BEATTIE Lay My Head, by L. ANNETTE BINDER He Knew, by DONALD ANTRIM The Visitor, by ASAKO SERIZAWA Where Do You Go? by SAMAR FARAH FITZGERALD Aphrodisiac, by RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA Two Opinions, by JOAN SILBER They Find the Drowned, by MELINDA MOUSTAKIS The Mexican, by GEORGE MCCORMICK Tiger, by NALINI JONES Pérou, by LILY TUCK Sinkhole, by JAMIE QUATRO The History of Girls, by AYsE PAPATYA BUCAK The Particles, by ANDREA BARRETT
SynopsisThe O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantation, the Kenai River in Alaska, a mansion in New Delhi, a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat, and the ghost-haunted rubble of a Turkish girls' school. Also included are the editor's introduction, essays from the jurors (Lauren Groff, Edith Pearlman, and Jim Shepard) on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.