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O. Henry Award おーへんりーしょう

Edition 18 (1936)

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James Gould Cozzens じぇーむず・ぐーるど・こずんず Winner

A short story built on unease and irony, where an ordinary setting is quietly disrupted by the presence of a stranger. Its force comes from the way small social gestures keep sliding into tension.

A stranger enters an ordinary scene and changes its temperature at once.

short fictionironysocial tensionunease