The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

The Tomb of Wrestling is a short story by Jo Ann Beard collected as the opening piece in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018. It quietly traces memory, the body, and the tensions of intimate connection, drawing a sense of loss and attachment from the details of personal experience.

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Where body and memory meet, the pain and intimacy of connection quietly take shape.

Jo Ann Beard's The Tomb of Wrestling appeared in a literary magazine before being collected in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018. No standalone book edition of the story was confirmed, so the identifiers refer to the Anchor anthology that contains the prize-winning story. Beard's finely tuned observation lets bodily closeness and layered memory overlap.

Review Summaries

The collection is valued for the poetic qualities of short fiction and for the craft of its selected stories. This piece stands out through prose that moves from quiet observation toward emotional depth.

Book Information

Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2018-09-04
Pages: 432 pages
Language: 英語
Size: 13.1 x 2.2 x 20.3 cm
ISBN-13: 9780525436584
ISBN-10: 0525436588
Price: 3300 JPY
Category: 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Anthologies & Literary Collections/General

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired their stories, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. "The Tomb of Wrestling," Jo Ann Beard, Tin House "Counterblast," Marjorie Celona, The Southern Review "Nayla," Youmna Chlala, Prairie Schooner "Lucky Dragon," Viet Dinh, Ploughshares "Stop ’n’ Go," Michael Parker, New England Review "Past Perfect Continuous," Dounia Choukri, Chicago Quarterly Review "Inversion of Marcia," Thomas Bolt, n+1 "Nights in Logar," Jamil Jan Kochai, A Public Space "How We Eat," Mark Jude Poirier, Epoch "Deaf and Blind," Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker "Why Were They Throwing Bricks?," Jenny Zhang, n+1 "An Amount of Discretion," Lauren Alwan, The Southern Review "Queen Elizabeth," Brad Felver, One Story "The Stamp Collector," Dave King, Fence "More or Less Like a Man," Michael Powers, The Threepenny Review "The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies," Jo Lloyd, Zoetrope "Up Here," Tristan Hughes, Ploughshares "The Houses That Are Left Behind," Brenda Walker, The Kenyon Review "We Keep Them Anyway," Stephanie A. Vega, The Threepenny Review "Solstice," Anne Enright, The New Yorker Prize Jury for 2018: Fiona McFarlane, Ottessa Moshfegh, Elizabeth Tallent

Laura Furman , series editor of The O. Henry Prize Stories since 2003, is the winner of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for her fiction. The author of several books, including the story collection The Mother Who Stayed , she taught writing for many years at the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Central Texas.

Reviews

Good book to read.
Good book
but not as many good vs bad stories as in some past years. I really didn't care for The Tomb of Wrestling which was selected by two of the jurors as their favorite. For me it was way too long and included much irrelevant side-information almost like the author were practicing for writing a novel. My favorite in this collection was Queen Elizabeth by Brad Felver also How We Eat by Lara Vapnyar An Amount of Discretion by Lauren Alwan Why Were They Throwing Bricks by Jenny Zhang Nayla by Youmna Chlala and Counterblast by Marjorie Celon Worth the Read as Always!
Love everythingI have read so far.
The stories in this collection are all well-written and challenged me to work my mind as I read them. However, I was expecting surprise endings and these didn't provide them. My bad. As literary shorts, these are good, much like the ones you would find in Glimmer Train magazine.