The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners

The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize WinnersA diverse and glorious selection . . . a gift of imagination, wit, and wonder. The collection is filled with miniature masterpieces. . . . This must have anthology is a treasure trove not to be missed. Library Journal (starred review) The prestigious annual story anthology, featuring prize winning stories by Kate DiCamillo, Jess Walter, Dave Eggers, Allegra Goodman, Jai Chakrabarti, Francisco Gonzalez, and more. Continuing a century long tradition of

Wars were fought for them

the married Daisy Buchanan

In this edition

sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time

Leave it to an Irishman to write one of the greatest-ever novels about New York

Expanded from a story originally published in The New Yorker

Michael Daly was a West Point dropout who risked his neck over and over to keep his men alive

but she has her strings ensemble

but more than thirty years later

dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is

When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her

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