| Description |
xxxv, 298 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction : an apprentice / Geoffrey Wolff -- Playing chess with Arthur Koestler / Julian Barnes -- A snapping turtle in June / Franklin Burroughs -- Think about it / Frank Conroy -- Insider baseball / Joan Didion -- Schedules / Annie Dillard -- The muses are heard / Stanley Elkin -- Confessions of a low roller / Joseph Epstein -- Accommodations / Richard Ford -- Parade march from "That creaturely world" / Albert Goldbarth -- Bones / Paul Gruchow -- On not knowing the half of it : homage to telegraphist Jacobs / Christopher Hitchens -- Heaven and nature / Edward Hoagland -- Why stop? / Mary Hood -- Who owns the West? / William Kittredge -- Falling into life / Leonard Kriegel -- Strawberries under ice / David Quammen -- Oranges and sweet sister boy / Judy Ruiz -- On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele -- Keeping the future at bay / Robert Stone -- The brave tailors of Maida / Gay Talese -- Mystery in a Soviet library / Victor Zaslavsky -- Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 1988. |
| Subject |
American essays.
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| Added Author |
Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-
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Atwan, Robert.
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| ISBN |
0899198910 |
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0899198929 paperback $8.95 |
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