Prize Stories 1989

"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction"-The Atlantic Monthly
The O. Henry Prize Stories 1989 gathers 20 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines.
Stories include-
Ernest J. Finney "Peacocks" (first prize)
Joyce Carol Oates "House Hunting" (second prize)
Harriet Doerr "Edie- A Life" (third prize)
Jean Ross "The Sky Fading Upward to Yellow- A Footnote to Literary History"
Starkey Flythe, Jr. "CV10"
Alice Adams "After You've Gone"
Frances Sherwood "History"
Banning K. Lary "Death of a Duke"
T. Coraghessan Doyle "Sinking House"
Catherine Petroski "The Hit"
James Salter "American Express"
David Foster Wallace "Here and There"
Susan Minot "Ile S che"
Millicent Dillon "Wrong Stories"
Charles Simmons "Clandestine Acts"
John Casey "Avid"
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison "To Be"
Rick Bass "The Watch"
Ellen Herman "Unstable Ground"
Charles Dickinson "Child in the Leaves"