Prize Stories 1979: the O. Henry Awards
Author | : William Abrahams |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : William Abrahams |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : David Garlock |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 809 |
Release | : 2003-04-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780813825458 |
As Garlock relates in the preface, “The quality of the research, reporting and writing of these unique features is stunning. No two are written exactly the same way. But they all hold to one constant: strong emotions and content—powerful, touching, frightening, harrowing journalism.” The rules for winning a Pulitzer Prize in feature writing are simple, yet demanding: the prize is awarded for “a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality.” For over two decades, the Pulitzer has been given annually to journalists whose work best exemplifies those high ideals. The second edition of Pulitzer Prize Feature Stories: America’s Best Writing is an unabridged collection of this award-winning work, now covering 25 years. Editor David Garlock analyzes each story, and readers are given a glimpse at the circumstances surrounding the narrative. Each feature is followed by an insightful analysis by Garlock that probes the tactics the feature writer used in both writing and reporting the work. Journalism students and experienced professional writers will find Pulitzer Prize Feature Stories an essential compendium of the best feature writing of the last quarter century.
Author | : William Abrahams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Minnesota |
ISBN | : 9780385142199 |
Includes story by Minnesota author Thomas M. Disch.
Author | : Penelope Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780395478042 |
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics lives in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. How each of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of this perfect little novel. Winner of a 1997 Booker Prize.
Author | : Xinwu Liu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : China |
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Author | : Tim O'Brien |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2009-02-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307485501 |
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED "To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales." So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars. In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing from and meeting the demands of battle, Going After Cacciato stands as much more than just a great war novel. Ultimately it's about the forces of fear and heroism that do battle in the hearts of us all. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content
Author | : Diane Johnson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 1998-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0452279453 |
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST “A nearly flawless performance—a beautifully constructed, elegantly written book, delicate in its perceptions, powerful in its impact.”—New York Times The riveting story of four crucial days in the lives of four people sharing a rambling Victorian house, "lying low" and harboring secrets not meant to be shared Theo Wait, a middle-aged former ballet dancer, and her brother, Anton, have taken in two boarders: beautiful Lynn, who never receives mail or visitors; and energetic and effusive Ouida, a Brazilian student and illegal alien who won't let complicated bureaucratic wrangles and constant fear of deportation taint her vision of America as the land of opportunity. A faked identity, a search for one of the FBI's most wanted escaped prison convicts, and a Brazilian feast that spins out of control kick the plot into high gear. While each of these characters has been plagued by a sense of impending disaster, the terrible thing they've all been fearing comes from an entirely unexpected direction, shattering all of their lives.
Author | : John Cheever |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 1093 |
Release | : 2011-04-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307743985 |
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.” From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” and “The Swimmer,” these are tales that have helped define the form. Featuring a preface by the Pulizter Prize-winning author, The Stories of John Cheever brings together some of the finest short stories ever written. "Cheever’s crowning achievement is the ability to be simultaneously generous and cynical, to see that the absurd and the profound can reside in the same moment, and to acknowledge both at the detriment of neither." —The Guardian
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Publisher | : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 20 |
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Author | : M. Bostrom |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2007-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230607489 |
This book reveals a female sexual economy in the marketplace of contemporary short fiction which locates a struggle for sexual power between mothers and daughters within a larger struggle to pursue that object of the American dream: whiteness.