The best American essays 2000
By: edited and with an introduction by Alan Lightman ; Robert Atwan, series editor
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780618035786; 9780618035809
Subjects: American essays
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233).
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Robert Atwan; title: Introduction  -- Alan Lightman; title: The last time I saw Paris  -- André Aciman; title: In distrust of movements  -- Wendell Berry; title: The joys and perils of victimhood  -- Ian Buruma; title: A son in shadow  -- Fred D'Aguiar; title: Westbury court  -- Edwidge Danticat; title: In defense of the book  -- William H. Gass; title: Rome : the visible city  -- Mary Gordon; title: Earth's eye  -- Edward Hoagland; title: Those words that echo ... echo ... echo ... through life  -- Jamaica Kincaid; title: If you are what you eat, then what am I?  -- Geeta Kothari; title: The resurrectionist  -- Richard McCann; title: The synthetic sublime  -- Cynthia Ozick; title: The force of spirit  -- Scott Russell Sanders; title: At a certain age  -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz; title: The Singer solution to world poverty  -- Peter Singer; title: Gray area : thinking with a damaged brain  -- Floyd Skloot; title: Listening for silence  -- Mark Slouka; title: Heroin/e  -- Cheryl Strayed; title: What's so bad about hate?  -- Andrew Sullivan; title: A designer universe?  -- Steven Weinberg; title: A shark in the mind of one contemplating wilderness  -- Terry Tempest Williams; title: Biographical notes --; title: Notable essays of 1999.