The O. Henry Awards prize stories, 1991 / edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams.

Includes biographies and some comments by the authors (p.412).

SHORT STORIES: First prize : -- A sandstone farmhouse / John Updike, (p.1) -- The swimmers / Joyce Carol Oates, (p.31) -- Overland / Sharon Sheehe Stark, (p.52) -- Ashes / T. Alan Broughton, (p.68) -- Saul and Pasty are pregnant / Charles Baxter, (p.91) -- Hand, cup, shell / Ursula K. Le Guin, (p.124) -- Powwow / Patricia Lear, (p.150) -- Hippies, Indians, buffalo / Wayne Johnson, (p.164) -- For women everywhere / Perri Klass, (p.182) -- Nothing to ask for / Dennis McFarland, (p.196) -- Raisin faces / Helen Norris, (p.214) -- The Ilui / Diane Levenberg, (p.233) -- The very pineapple / Charlotte Zoe Walker, (p.251) -- Oil and water / Millicent Dillon, (p.267) -- Ecco / Ronald Sukenick, (p.301) -- Earthquake damage / Alice Adams, (p.323) -- Moscow nights / Marly Swick, (p.336) -- The apple-green triumph / Martha Lacy Hall, (p.359) -- Talking to the dead / Sylvia A. Watanabe, (p.376) -- During the twelfth summer of Elmer D. Peterson / Thomas Fox Averill, (p.389)