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Title The best American essays, 1996 / edited and with an introduction by Geoffrey C. Ward ; Robert Atwan, series editor.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  814.54 BES    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  814.008 BEST 1996    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  814.08 BEST    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 370 pages ; 21 cm
Contents Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction / Geoffrey C. Ward -- Cather and the academy / Joan Acocella -- Books as furniture / Nicholson Baker -- Midnight in the garden of good and Elvis / Julie Baumgold -- Influenza 1918 / Jane Brox -- The trouble with wilderness / William Cronon -- Hooked / Stanley Crouch -- Understanding Afrocentrism : why blacks dream of a world without whites / Gerald Early -- The art of the nap / Joseph Epstein -- A lesson from Michelangelo / James Fenton -- Take the F / Ian Frazier -- The ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi / Amitav Ghosh -- Wonderland / Adam Gopnik -- The black widow / Gordon Grice -- Brightness visible / Edward Hoagland -- Coming home again / Chang-Rae Lee -- Crabcakes / James Alan McPherson -- They all just went away / Joyce Carol Oates -- Owls / Mary Oliver -- Slouching toward Washington / Darryl Pinckney -- Last call of the wild / Jonathan Raban -- One violent crime / Bruce Shapiro -- A case of the great pox / William Styron -- Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 1995.
Subject American essays.
Added Author Ward, Geoffrey C.
Atwan, Robert.
ISBN 0395717566 (pbk.) ; $12.95
0395717574
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