num_pages: 279
description: The 1991 volume of The Best American Essays marks the sixth year in this flourishing series. Consistently singled out as presenting the year's best short nonfiction, it has reawakened excitement for this remarkably versatile, often overlooked and occasionally maligned form. Includes works from Woody Allen, Stephen Jay Gould, Margaret Atwood and others.Foreword / Robert Atwan --Introduction / Joyce Carol Oates --Random reflections of a second-rate mind / Woody Allen --The female body / Margaret Atwood --The female body / John Updike --Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer --Running the table / Frank Conroy --Life with daughters : watching the Miss America Pageant / Gerald Early --This autumn morning / Gretel Ehrlich --Wounded Chevy at Wounded Knee / Diana Hume George --Counters and cable cars / Stephen Jay Gould --New York City : crash course / Elizabeth Hardwick --Kubota / Garrett Hongo --Maintenance / Naomi Shihab Nye --Late Victorians / Richard Rodriguez --Seeking home / Dorien Ross --Mosaic on walking / Mark Rudman --The ideal particle and the great unconformity / Reg Saner --Mother Tongue / Amy Tan --At the Buffalo Bill Museum --June 1988 / Jane Tompkins --On being white, female, and born in Bensonhurst / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick --Questions of conquest / Mario Vargas Llosa --The killing game / Joy Williams --Biographical notes --Notable essays of 1990
language: English
title: The Best American Essays 1991
titlecomplete: The Best American Essays 1991
genres: Nonfiction, Anthologies, Essays
ratings_count: 59
publisher: Ticknor & Fields