The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 (The O. Henry Prize Collection)
A directionless eighteen-year-old escapes into a refuge that turns out to be built on violence and control.
Work Information
A directionless eighteen-year-old escapes into a refuge that turns out to be built on violence and control.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Published
- 2006-05-09
- Pages
- 384 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.26 x 2.06 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781400095391
- ISBN-10
- 1400095395
- Price
- 13090 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Anthologies & Literary Collections/General
A radiant reflection of contemporary fiction at its best, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 features stories from locales as diverse as Russia, Zimbabwe, and the rural American South. Series editor Laura Furman considered thousands of stories in hundreds of literary magazines before selecting the winners, which are accompanied here by short essays from each of the three eminent jurors on his or her favorite story, as well as observations from all twenty prize winners on what inspired them. Ranging in tone from arch humor to self-deluding obsessiveness to fairy-tale ingenuousness, these stories are a treasury of potential classics.
Laura Furman's work has appeared in The New Yorker , Vanity Fair , Ploughshares , The Yale Review , and other magazines. She is the founding editor of the highly regarded American Short Fiction (three-time finalist for the American Magazine Award). A professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, she teaches in the graduate James A. Michener Center for writers. She lives in Austin.
Reviews
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Always a great experience
O'Henry prize stories is a great collection of short stories. Of course the authors are not O'Henry genius, but they are always a great read.
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Love!
I love this cover design and I wish they'd all stay like this. Love the stories too! There are some odd ones, some very typically "literary" ones, etc. I can see why these are prize winning stories.
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good
good
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Not a good choice
Makes for weary reading. I anticipated a lot from this collection but some of the stories especially those at the beginning are so boring that you need to gather all your will to finish the book.
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Such a great platform for introducing readers to new and wonderful writers
Such a great platform for introducing readers to new and wonderful writers, willing to take chances providing a great variety in the art of the short story.
Related Literary Awards
- O. Henry Award Edition 85 (2006) ・Winner・Winner・Winner