The O. Henry Prize Stories 100th Anniversary Edition (2019) (The O. Henry Prize Collection)
若い継母 Valerie が、夫の前妻の娘 Robyn を預かるうち、子どもの置かれた不安定な家庭環境に気づく短編。家庭、階級、母性の期待が交差し、ためらいながらも子どもを守ろうとする瞬間を描く。
作品情報
雪の日の小さな決断が、継母と子どもの関係を変えていく。
Tessa Hadley の短編。初出は The New Yorker で、2019 年の O. Henry Prize Stories アンソロジーに収録された。日常の会話や家の様子から、子どもの孤独と大人の利己心が浮かび上がる。
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抑制された心理描写と冬の情景が印象的な家庭小説として読まれている。劇的な事件よりも、子どもをめぐる責任感が静かに変化する過程に力がある。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- 発売日
- 2019-09-10
- ページ数
- 496ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.2 x 2.8 x 20.1 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780525565536
- ISBN-10
- 0525565531
- 価格
- 3629 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Anthologies & Literary Collections/General
Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology gathers the twenty best new short stories published in the previous year. An Anchor Books Original. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019 --continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence--contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. The winning writers are an impressive mix of celebrated names and new, emerging voices. Their stories evoke lives both near and distant, in settings ranging from Jamaica, Houston, and Hawaii to a Turkish coal mine and a drought-ridden Northwestern farm, and feature an engaging array of characters, including Laotian refugees, a Colombian kidnap victim, an eccentric Irish schoolteacher, a woman haunted by a house that cleans itself, and a strangely long-lived rabbit. The uniformly breathtaking stories are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines. List of 2019 winners: Tessa Hadley John Keeble Moira McCavana Rachel Kondo Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Stephanie Reents Alexia Arthurs Valerie O’Riordan Patricia Engel Kenan Orhan Sarah Hall Bryan Washington Isabella Hammad Weike Wang Caoilinn Hughes Souvankham Thammavongsa Liza Ward Doua Thao Alexander MacLeod John Edgar Wideman Prize Jurors 2019: Lynn Freed, Elizabeth Strout, Lara Vapynar
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.
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Short story fans! Add this to your library!
A well chosen collection of short stories. I am in the process of reading them and trust I will enjoy them all. They were selected by judges with literary distinction and authored by extraordinarily talented writers. If you are a short story fan, this collection is one to add to your library.
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Great Stories!
I sent this to my boyfriend while he is out of town and he loves the short stories!
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One amazing piece, one very good piece and a lot of animal cruelty
There is one amazing story in here by Weike Wang and a good one by Tessa Hadley. Other than those two, and I agree with another reviewer on here, there is a striking amount of animal cruelty in half the stories that ruined any pleasure I might have reading them. There was one story that had entire paragraphs and pages of commas and no periods...who would publish something like that? It was completely unreadable.
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Book came quickly, was in very good condition. Would order from them again.
Book came quickly. It was in very good condition. I would order from them again. Book will be used with a short story discussion group.
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Great stories !!
Always excellent stories — perfect book to read during the holidays
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