Prize stories 1970
Subtitle: the O. Henry awards
By: edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: American Short stories; American fiction
Other titles: O. Henry awards
Description: Seventeen stories some by established authors some by newcomers.
Table of contents: title: The girl who sang with the Beatles  -- Robert Hemenway ("Stephen Patch"); title: The biggest thing since Custer  -- William Eastlake; title: A cliff of fall  -- Norval Rindfleisch; title: It's cold out there  -- Perdita Buchan; title: A modern development  -- George Blake; title: Patients  -- Jonathan Strong; title: Joe College  -- H.E.F. Donohue; title: Am Strande von Tanger  -- James Salter; title: My son the murderer  -- Bernard Malamud; title: Nights at O'Rear's  -- Patricia Browning Griffith; title: Saint John of the Hershey Kisses: 1964  -- Tom Cole; title: Bech takes pot luck  -- John Updike; title: A day in Operations  -- David Grinstead; title: Theo's girl  -- Nancy Willard; title: Of cabbages and kings  -- James Alan McPherson; title: Unmailed, unwritten letters  -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again -- Joyce Carol Oates.