Prize Stories 1989: The O. Henry Awards. [Includes David Foster Wallace’s Here and There].

FOSTER WALLACE, David; James Salter; T.C. Boyle; et al.

$1,250.00

Item Number: 136204

New York: Doubleday, 1989.

First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by David Foster Wallace on the front free endpaper. Included in this volume is the story “Here and There” by David Foster Wallace, which was chosen as one of the best short stories of the year. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Carin Goldberg. Edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams.

"Here and There" is really very beautiful. Plus, it’s a good writing program revenge story. In David’s first year at grad school, his professors threatened he might be kicked out. He turned in "Here and There," his professor hated it—and then it got picked by the O. Henry Prize Stories collection as one of the best of its year. "And it was all I could do not to, you know, send him the jacket of the book. I mean, to do something really like that, because he had hurt my feelings" (David Lipsky).