The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009

By Anthony Doerr, Marisa Silver, A. S. Byatt, Nadine Gordimer, Miller, L. E., Laura Furman, Ha Jin, Graham Joyce, Tim O'Brien, Junot Díaz, Karen Brown, Judy Troy, Paul Yoon, John Burnside, Andrew Sean Greer, Alistair Morgan, Roger Nash, Paul Theroux, Viet Dinh, Caitlin Horrocks, Kristen Sundberg Lundstrum, E V Slate, Mohan Sikka, Manuel Muñoz

Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, American Short stories, Short stories

Description: An ordinary soldier of the queen / Graham Joyce The nursery / Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Purple bamboo park / E.V. Slate The bell ringer / John Burnside Uncle Musto takes a mistress / Mohan Sikka Kind / L.E. Miller Icebergs / Alistair Morgan The camera and the cobra / Roger Nash Tell him about Brother John / Manuel Muñoz This is not your city / Caitlin Horrocks The house behind a weeping cherry / Ha Jin Twenty-two stories / Paul Theroux The order of things / Judy Troy A beneficiary / Nadine Gordimer Substitutes / Viet Dinh Isabel's daughter / Karen Brown The visitor / Marisa Silver And we will be here / Paul Yoon Darkness / Andrew Sean Greer Wildwood / Junot Díaz Reading the PEN/O. Henry Prize stories 2009: A.S. Byatt on "An ordinary soldier of the Queen" by Graham Joyce ; Anthony Doerr on " Wildwood" by Junot Díaz ; Tim O'Brien on "An ordinary soldier of the Queen" by Graham Joyce