The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

Author: Furman, LauraColor: Sky/Pale blueFeatures: Anchor BooksNumber Of Pages: 400Details: Product description NAReviews: “Those who still cling to the promise of the short story can be glad that there is still someone willing to do the heavy lifting.” —Los Angeles Times   About the Author: 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 seven books, including her recent story collection The Mother Who Stayed, she taught writing for many years at the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Central Texas. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.  Introduction This year, as always, when the reading got under way for The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016, the stories in the just-published 2015 collection whispered in my ear that this would be the year when I wouldn’t find another twenty worthy of succeeding the