num_pages: 320
description: Best-selling author Alan Lightman selects the year’s finest nonfiction as this acclaimed series celebrates its fifteenth year. He has chosen a diverse, very personal collection that celebrates the essay as an independent genre unlike any other. This year’s pieces embrace stylistic freedom and strong opinions and afford the reader a fascinating view of the writer’s mind as it struggles with truth, memory, and experience. Featured writers include Jamaica Kincaid, Edward Hoagland, Cynthia Ozick, Mary Gordon, Edwidge Danticat, and others.
language: English
title: The Best American Essays 2000
titlecomplete: The Best American Essays 2000 (The Best American Series)
genres: Essays, Nonfiction, Anthologies
ratings_count: 123
publisher: Mariner Books