Download or read book The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 written by Laura Furman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radiant reflection of contemporary fiction at its best, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 features stories from locales as diverse as Russia, Zimbabwe, and the rural American South. Series editor Laura Furman considered thousands of stories in hundreds of literary magazines before selecting the winners, which are accompanied here by short essays from each of the three eminent jurors on his or her favorite story, as well as observations from all twenty prize winners on what inspired them. Ranging in tone from arch humor to self-deluding obsessiveness to fairy-tale ingenuousness, these stories are a treasury of potential classics. From the Trade Paperback edition.