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Established by the Dungannon Foundation in 1986 to honor living American writers who have made a significant contribution to the short story form, the annual Rea Award for the Short Story has become one of America's most prestigious literary prizes. Each year writers and editors, chosen as jurors by Michael Rea, nominate writers of short fiction to be honored by the award. In The American Story, Rea has turned again to acclaimed jurors such as Joy Williams and Stanley Elkin and asked them to select the best stories by the illustrious winners - Cynthia Ozick, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Tobias Wolff, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Bowles, Eudora Welty and Grace Paley - along with the best stories by prominent writers who have been nominated for the award - including Ann Beattie, Harold Brodkey, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Richard Ford, James Salter, and John Updike. All told, this collection brings together the finest work by twenty-one of our foremost practitioners of contemporary short fiction.

"Diane Parmelee is the belle of Boston and an officer's daughter in every way--resourceful, bold, and single-minded in pursuing what she wants. And ever since she was a young girl, Diane has wanted Lije Stuart. Meeting him again after five years, Diane is exhilarated to realize that Lije's desire mirrors her own. But the bliss they find together is short-lived. War is looming and Lije--handsome, Harvard-educated and fiercely proud of his Cherokee ancestry--faces and impossible choice."--Page 4 of cover.

The perfect alternative to longer anthologies, this brief, affordable, and diverse collection of short stories from the past three centuries provides a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the study of fiction. In keeping with the objectives of the Penguin Academics series, Fiction: A Pocket Anthology offers a range of widely admired stories from nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century authors in a quality trade-format book at an affordable price. Why do you need this new edition? • Thirteen new selections include stories by authors not previously represented in this anthology, as well as different offerings for previously anthologized authors. • Brand new to this anthology are authors Hisaye Yamamoto, Tim O'Brien, and Sherman Alexie who bring diverse subject matter and styles to the mix. • New selections from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, and Lorrie Moore show these admired writers at their best.

Written for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and playwrights, Imaginative Writing explores the elements of craft (Image, Voice, Character, Setting, Story, and Development and Revision) and includes writing exercises in each chapter.