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Title 20 : the best of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize / edited by John Edgar Wideman
Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages)
Series Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize
Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize
Contents The death of Descartes / David Bosworth -- Thief / Robley Wilson -- Frankenstein meets the ant people / Jonathan Penner-- The luckiest man in the world / Randall Silvis -- The man who loved Levittown / W.D. Wetherell -- Weeds / Rick DeMarinis -- At St. Theresa's College for Women / Ellen Hunnicutt -- Uncle Moustapha's eclipse / Reginald McKnight -- Ariadne in Exile / Maya Sonenberg -- Limbo river / Rick Hillis -- Have you seen me? / Elizabeth Graver -- Director of the world / Jane McCafferty -- Winter haven / Stewart O'Nan -- Rise / Jennifer Cornell -- Dangerous men / Geoffrey Becker --Vaquita / Edith Pearlman -- Fado / Katherine Vaz -- The woman in the headlights / Barbara Croft -- After / Lucy Honig -- Waiting for Giotto / Adria Bernardi
Summary The Drue Heinz Literature Prize was established in 1980 to encourage and support the writing and reading of short fiction. Over the past twenty years judges such as Robert Penn Warren, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Alice McDermott, and Frank Conroy have selected the best collections from the hundreds submitted annually by up-and-coming writers. 20 represents the best of the best-one story from each of the prize-winning volumes. Chosen by acclaimed author John Edgar Wideman, the selections cover a broad range of inventive and original characters, settings, an
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SUBJECT Drue Heinz Literature Prize. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86738012
Drue Heinz Literature Prize fast
Subject Short stories, American.
FICTION -- General.
Short stories, American
Form Electronic book
Author Wideman, John Edgar.
ISBN 9780822972419
0822972417
Other Titles Twenty
Best of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize