"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 Sèche" 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"