"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction"-The Atlantic Monthly The O. Henry Prize Stories 1989 gathers 20 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. Stories include- Ernest J. Finney "Peacocks" (first prize) Joyce Carol Oates "House Hunting" (second prize) Harriet Doerr "Edie- A Life" (third prize) Jean Ross "The Sky Fading Upward to Yellow- A Footnote to Literary History" Starkey Flythe, Jr. "CV10" Alice Adams "After You've Gone" Frances Sherwood "History" Banning K. Lary "Death of a Duke" T. Coraghessan Doyle "Sinking House" Catherine Petroski "The Hit" James Salter "American Express" David Foster Wallace "Here and There" Susan Minot "Ile S che" Millicent Dillon "Wrong Stories" Charles Simmons "Clandestine Acts" John Casey "Avid" Barbara Grizzuti Harrison "To Be" Rick Bass "The Watch" Ellen Herman "Unstable Ground" Charles Dickinson "Child in the Leaves"