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Prize Stories 1980: The O. Henry Awards ed. William Abrahams (Doubleday & Company, Inc., April 1980, 0-385-15106-3, 456pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period Summer 1978 to Summer 1979. 5 · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms 7 · Introduction · William Abrahams · in 11 · A Silver Dish · Saul Bellow · nv The New Yorker September 25 1978; first prize. 41 · Women in a Roman Courtyard · Nancy Hallinan · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1979; second prize. 57 · The Men’s Club · Leonard Michaels · nv Esquire December 19 1978; third prize. 81 · Ghosts Like Them · Shirley Ann Taggart · ss The Hudson Review Autumn 1978 97 · The Old Forest · Peter Taylor · nv The New Yorker May 14 1979 153 · Looking for Mother · Marilyn Krysl · ss Antæus #33, Spring 1979 163 · Elizabeth · Walter Sullivan · nv The Sewanee Review Summer 1979 189 · The Goodbye Present · Daniel Asa Rose · ss Partisan Review v45 #4, 1978 209 · Snow · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss Fiction v6 #1, 1978 225 · Hopeless Acts Performed Properly, with Grace · Robert Dunn · ss Redbook March 1979, as “Waiting Well” 239 · Fatal · Helen Chasin · ss The New Republic June 2 1979 249 · In Case of Survival · T. Gertler · nv Esquire April 10 1979 271 · Group Sex · Ann Arensberg · nv Canto v2 #4, 1979 295 · Old Light · Barry Targan · ss Yankee April 1979 309 · Sweet Talk · Stephanie Vaughn · ss Antæus #34, Summer 1979 321 · Amanuensis: A Tale of the Creative Life · Gail Godwin · nv Cosmopolitan August 1979 345 · Truth or Consequences · Alice Adams · ss Shenandoah Winter 1978/1979 359 · The Priest’s Wife · John L’Heureux · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1978 373 · The Pitcher · Andre Dubus · ss North American Review Spring 1979 389 · The Cinderella Waltz · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker January 29 1979 409 · All the Pelageyas · Millicent G. Dillon · ss Ascent v4 #3, 1979 423 · An Influx of Poets · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker November 6 1978

Prize Stories 1981: The O. Henry Awards ed. William Abrahams (Doubleday & Company, Inc., May 1981, 0-385-15977-3, $12.95, 309pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period Summer 1979 to Summer 1980. 7 · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms 9 · Introduction · William Abrahams · in 15 · The Shawl · Cynthia Ozick · ss The New Yorker May 26 1980; first prize. 20 · Interior Space · John Irving · nv Fiction v6 #2, 1980 52 · The Runner · James Tabor · ss The Washingtonian September 1979 59 · St. Stephen’s Green · Kay Boyle · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1980 67 · The Women Who Walk · Nancy Huddleston Packer · ss Southwest Review Winter 1980, as by Nancy Huddleston 81 · Between the Lines · Lee Smith · ss Carolina Quarterly Winter 1980 94 · Snow · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker December 31 1979 105 · In the Garden of the North American Martyrs · Tobias Wolff · ss Antæus #37, Spring 1980 117 · Hope of Zion · Sandra Hollin Flowers · ss Redbook August 1980 127 · The Abortion · Alice Walker · ss Mother Jones August 1980 138 · The Last Abandonment · Jack Matthews · ss Georgia Review Fall 1979 154 · Advent · Marian Novick · ss Massachusetts Review Winter 1979 174 · The Man Who Loved Levittown · W. D. Wetherell · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1979 191 · Mutilated Woman · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Michigan Quarterly Review Spring 1980 212 · Baby · Ivy Goodman · ss Ploughshares Winter 1979 217 · The Waltz Dream · Barbara Reid · ss The Hudson Review Autumn 1979 239 · The Phototropic Woman · Annabel Thomas · ss Wind v10, 1980 247 · Brief Lives in California · John L’Heureux · ss Fiction v6 #2, 1980 258 · Isaac and the Undertaker’s Daughter · Steve Stern · ss Epoch Spring/Summer 1979 273 · The Separation · Annette T. Rottenberg · ss The South Carolina Review Fall 1979 289 · World’s End · Paul Theroux · ss Mademoiselle June 1980 301 · Magazines Consulted · [uncredited] · ms

Prize Stories 1982: The O. Henry Awards ed. William Abrahams (Doubleday & Company, Inc., April 1982, 0-385-17563-9, $15.95, xi+321pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period Summer 1980 to Summer 1981. vii · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms ix · Introduction · William Abrahams · in 1 · Facing Front · Susan Kenney · nv Epoch Winter 1980; first prize. 32 · The Future · Joseph McElroy · ss The New Yorker December 22 1980; second prize. 52 · A Postal Creed · Ben Brooks · ss Chicago Review Spring 1980; third prize. 62 · The Pleasure of Her Company · Jane Smiley · ss Mademoiselle March 1981 80 · Charybdis · T. E. Holt · ss The Kenyon Review Autumn 1980 99 · The Jungle of Injustice · Nora Johnson · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1980 114 · I Thought of Chatterton, the Marvelous Boy · Kenneth Gewertz · nv Massachusetts Review Spring 1981 136 · La Victoire · Kate Wheeler · ss The Threepenny Review v2 #3, 1981 152 · Layaways · Stephen Dixon · ss The South Carolina Review Fall 1980 166 · The Gift of the Prodigal · Peter Taylor · ss The New Yorker June 1 1981 186 · White Boy · Ivy Goodman · ss Ploughshares Winter 1980/1981 196 · Fast Love · Michael Malone · ss Mademoiselle September 1980 206 · The Ghost Soldiers · Tim O’Brien · nv Esquire March 1981 229 · The Man Whom Women Adored · Joyce Carol Oates · nv North American Review March 1981 254 · Next Door · Tobias Wolff · ss Antæus #40/41, Winter/Spring 1981 260 · Infidelities · Florence Trefethen · ss Canto v3 #3, 1980 271 · The Greatest Slump of All Time · David Carkeet · ss Carolina Quarterly Fall 1980 289 · Greyhound People · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker January 19 1981; special award for continuing achievement. 301 · To See You Again · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker March 16 1981; special award for continuing achievement.

Prize Stories 1983: The O. Henry Awards ed. William Abrahams (Doubleday & Company, Inc., April 1983, 0-385-18115-9, $16.95, xi+344pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period Summer 1981 to Summer 1982. vii · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms ix · Introduction · William Abrahams · in 1 · A Small Good Thing · Raymond Carver · ss Ploughshares Summer/Fall 1982; first prize. 26 · My Warsawa · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Kenyon Review Autumn 1981; second prize. 80 · Victrola · Wright Morris · ss The New Yorker April 12 1982; third prize. 90 · Melanie and the Purple People Eaters · Irvin Faust · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1981 108 · Jean-Pierre · Elizabeth Spencer · ss The New Yorker August 17 1981 128 · If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood · W. D. Wetherell · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Autumn 1981 141 · The City · John Updike · ss The New Yorker November 16 1981 157 · When the Lord Calls · Gloria Norris · ss The Sewanee Review Winter 1982 175 · My Life as a West African Gray Parrot · Leigh Buchanan Bienen · ss The Ontario Review Fall 1981/Winter 1982 189 · Shards · David Jauss · ss The California Quarterly #21, 1982 203 · The Only Son of the Doctor · Mary Gordon · ss Redbook August 1982 216 · The Ponoes · Peter Meinke · ss Yankee January 1982, as “Getting Rid of the Ponoes” 227 · Putting & Gardening · William F. Van Wert · ss North American Review June 1982 246 · Feasting · Elizabeth Benedict · ss Massachusetts Review Spring 1982 256 · Slow-Motion · Steven Schwartz · ss Mid-American Review v1 #2, 1982 270 · Heartbeat · Linda Svendsen · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1981 285 · Poor Boy · Lynda Lloyd · ss The Antioch Review Summer 1981 301 · The Secret Lives of Dieters · Perri Klass · ss Mademoiselle July 1982 310 · The Dogs in Renoir’s Garden · Gloria Whelan · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1982 320 · Work · David Plante · ss The New Yorker September 21 1981 337 · Magazines Consulted · [uncredited] · ms

Prize Stories 1984: The O. Henry Awards ed. William Abrahams (Doubleday & Company, Inc., April 1984, 0-385-18844-7, xii+296pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period Summer 1982 to Summer 1983. vii · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms ix · Introduction · William Abrahams · in 1 · Rosa · Cynthia Ozick · nv The New Yorker March 21 1983; first prize. 37 · Revive Us Again · Gloria Norris · ss The Sewanee Review Winter 1983 50 · Risk · Charles Dickinson · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1983 66 · Counting Months · David Leavitt · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1983 86 · Conveniences · Edith Pearlman · ss Ascent v8 #1, 1983 96 · Alaska · Alice Adams · ss Shenandoah v33 #2, 1983 106 · The Old Left · Daniel Menaker · ss Grand Street Autumn 1982 118 · Living Alone in Iota · Lee K. Abbott, Jr. · ss Fiction International #14, 1983 127 · A Private Landscape · Melissa Brown Pritchard · ss The Kenyon Review Autumn 1982 134 · The Model · Bernard Malamud · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1983 139 · The Third Count · Andrew Fetler · nv TriQuarterly #56, Winter 1983 161 · Lost Sons · James Salter · ss Grand Street Winter 1982 170 · Prayer for the Dying · Willis Johnson · ss TriQuarterly #55, Fall 1982 186 · The Life and Times of Major Fiction · Jonathan Baumbach · ss Antæus #49/50, Spring/Summer 1983 199 · The Artificial Moonlight · Donald Justice · ss Antæus #49/50, Spring/Summer 1983 214 · The Evolution of Birds of Paradise · Elizabeth Tallent · ss The New Yorker January 3 1983 226 · Not a Good Girl · Perri Klass · ss Mademoiselle July 1983 233 · The Story Hearer · Grace Paley · ss Mother Jones December 1982 241 · The Love Child · Helen Norris · ss The Sewanee Review Spring 1983 255 · For Jeromé—with Love and Kisses · Gordon Lish · nv The Antioch Review Summer 1983 292 · Magazines Consulted · [uncredited] · ms

Prize Stories 1985: The O. Henry Awards ed. William Abrahams (Doubleday & Company, Inc., April 1985, 0-385-19477-3, xii+319pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period Summer 1983 to Summer 1984. vii · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms ix · Introduction · William Abrahams · in 1 · Lily · Jane Smiley · nv The Atlantic Monthly July 1984; first prize. 20 · Hot Ice · Stuart Dybek · nv Antæus 1984; first prize. 46 · In the White Night · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker June 4 1984 51 · The Quarry · Helen Norris · ss Stories 63 · Lust · Susan Minot · ss The Paris Review #91, Spring 1984 71 · Bread and Butter Questions · Claude Koch · ss Four Quarters Autumn 1983 89 · Glimpse Into Another Country · Wright Morris · ss The New Yorker September 26 1983 103 · Saint Marie · Louise Erdrich · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1984 116 · Da Vinci Is Dead · R. C. Hamilton · ss The Antioch Review Spring 1984 132 · Daughter of the Revolution · Joseph McElroy · ss Antæus #52, Spring 1984 148 · The Crow Woman · Steve Heller · nv The Texas Review 174 · About Boston · Ward Just · nv The Atlantic Monthly December 1983 199 · Sister · Tobias Wolff · ss Ploughshares Winter 1983 206 · Holding On · Gloria Norris · ss The Sewanee Review Spring 1984 222 · Homework · Peter Cameron · ss The New Yorker May 7 1984 229 · Taking a Chance on Jack · Ilene Raymond · ss Mademoiselle April 1984 238 · The Axe, the Axe, the Axe · Eric Wilson · ss Massachusetts Review v24 #3, Autumn 1983 254 · The Seasons · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Ploughshares Winter 1983 271 · She Should Have Died Hereafter · Rolaine Hochstein · ss The Literary Review 282 · The Mango Community · Josephine Jacobsen · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1984 299 · The Other · John Updike · ss The New Yorker August 15 1983 315 · Magazines Consulted · [uncredited] · ms

Prize Stories 1986: The O. Henry Awards ed. William Abrahams (Doubleday & Company, Inc., April 1986, 0-385-23155-5, xi+274pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period Summer 1984 to Summer 1985. vii · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms ix · Introduction · William Abrahams · in 1 · Kindred Spirits · Alice Walker · ss Esquire August 1985; first prize. 12 · Pet Milk · Stuart Dybek · ss The New Yorker August 13 1984 17 · Crazy Ladies · Greg Johnson · ss Southern Humanities Review Spring 1985 31 · The Comedian · John L’Heureux · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1984 44 · Offerings · Joyce R. Kornblatt · ss Georgia Review Spring 1985 55 · The Costa Brava, 1959 · Ward Just · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 1985 70 · Uncle George and Uncle Stefan · Peter Meinke · ss The Apalachee Quarterly #22, 1985 80 · Big Bertha Stories · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss Mother Jones April 1985 95 · “I Don’t Believe This” · Merrill Joan Gerber · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1984 105 · Resurrection · Gordon Lish · ss The Pennsylvania Review Spring 1985 110 · Excerpts from Swan Lake · Peter Cameron · ss The Kenyon Review Spring 1985 118 · Molly’s Dog · Alice Adams · ss The Ontario Review Fall 1984/Winter 1985 130 · Transactions in a Foreign Currency · Deborah Eisenberg · ss The New Yorker January 21 1985 152 · The Garden of Redemption · Anthony DiFranco · ss St. Anthony Messenger March 1985 162 · Dirt Angel · Jeanne Wilmot · ss North American Review March 1985 175 · The Cousins · Elizabeth Spencer · nv The Southern Review Spring 1985 208 · The Year of the Hot Jock · Irvin Faust · ss Confrontation 226 · Kid MacArthur · Stephanie Vaughn · nv The New Yorker December 17 1984 245 · Master Race · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Partisan Review Fall 1984; special award for continuing achievement. 269 · Magazines Consulted · [uncredited] · ms

Prize Stories 1987: The O. Henry Awards ed. William Abrahams (Doubleday & Company, Inc., April 1987, 0-385-23594-1, $17.95, xiii+320pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period Summer 1985 to Summer 1986. vii · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms ix · Introduction · William Abrahams · in 1 · Fleur · Louise Erdrich · ss Esquire August 1986; first prize. 15 · The Children’s Wing · Joyce Johnson · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1986; first prize. 25 · The Darkness of Love · Robert Boswell · nv Ploughshares v11 #2/3, 1985 65 · Tide Pools · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker December 16 1985 81 · Blight · Stuart Dybek · nv Chicago October 1985 103 · The Janeites · James Lott · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1986 115 · Basil from Her Garden · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker October 21 1985 124 · The Island of Ven · Gina Berriault · ss Ploughshares v11 #2/3, 1985 132 · The Village · Jim Pitzen · ss Fiction Network Spring/Summer 1986 144 · What Feels Like the World · Richard Bausch · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1985 160 · Monitor · Millicent Dillon · ss The Threepenny Review Fall 1985 170 · Big Dog · Norman Lavers · ss North American Review September 1985 188 · Lady of Spain · Robert Taylor, Jr. · ss The Hudson Review Spring 1986 208 · The Singing Well · Helen Norris · nv TriQuarterly #64, Fall 1985 232 · Midrash on Happiness · Grace Paley · vi TriQuarterly #65, Winter 1986 235 · Taking Care · Lewis Horne · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Autumn 1985 251 · Up Home · Warren Wallace · nv Raritan Fall 1985 274 · Ancient Airs, Voices · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Antioch Review Winter 1986 300 · The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story · Daniel Stern · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1986 308 · I Get By · Mary Robison · ss The New Yorker July 21 1986 316 · Magazines Consulted · [uncredited] · ms