Prize stories 1983
Subtitle: the O. Henry awards
By: edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780385181150
Subjects: American Short stories
Other titles: O. Henry awards.
Table of contents: title: A small, good thing  -- Raymond Carver; title: My Warszawa  -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: Victrola  -- Wright Morris; title: Melanie and the Purple People Eaters  -- Irvin Faust; title: Jean-Pierre  -- Elizabeth Spencer; title: If a woodchuck could chuck wood  -- W.D. Wetherell; title: The city  -- John Updike; title: When the Lord calls  -- Gloria Norris; title: My life as a West African gray parrot  -- Leigh Buchanan Bienen; title: Shards  -- David Jauss; title: The only son of the doctor  -- Mary Gordon; title: The ponoes  -- Peter Meinke; title: Putting & gardening  -- William F. Van Wert; title: Feasting  -- Elizabeth Benedict; title: Slow-motion  -- Steven Schwartz; title: Heartbeat  -- Linda Svendsen; title: Poor boy  -- Lynda Lloyd; title: The secret life of dieters  -- Perri Klass; title: The dogs in Renoir's garden  -- Gloria Whelan; title: Work -- David Plante.