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O. Henry Prize Stories 2013: Including Stories By Donald Antrim, Andrea Barrett, Ann Beattie, Deborah Eisenberg, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Kelly Link (2013)

by Laura Furman(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1299809529 (ISBN13: 9781299809529)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Anchor Books

review 1: It's hard to rate an anthology. Some of the stories are really good -- I'm going to reread them before I return this to the library. Others, I lost interest and couldn't finish. Favorites so far: The Particles, Sugarcane, The Summer People, and, if not the whole story, the description of the puppet opera involving South Pole explorers, dog teams, and penguins (all with vocal parts) in Your Duck Is My Duck.
review 2: Another fine collection here. Standouts include: Kelly Link's "The Summer People" (a masterful blend of magic and realism), Jamie Quatro's "Sinkhole" (a brilliant introduction to the term sexorcism), and Ayse Papatya Bucak's "The History of Girls" (a short story about girls who are dead or dying in the aftermath of an explosion). Otherwise, Munro... more writes a Munro story, and everybody else seems to be stuck 30 years in the past. less

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