"The O. Henry Prize stories [was] ... retitled The Pen/O. Henry Prize stories in 2009." -- p. vi.
"An Anchor Books original"--T.p. verso.
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