The best American essays, 1997
By: edited and with an introduction by Ian Frazier ; Robert Atwan, series editor
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780395856949; 9780395856956
Subjects: American essays
Description: Includes essays by Thomas McGuane, Cynthia Ozick, Susan Sontag, and Gay Talese, among others.
Table of contents: title: Notes on my mother / Hilton Als; title: The fourth state of matter / Jo Ann Beard; title: First tell me what kind of reader / Roy Blount, Jr.; title: Labyrinthine / Bernard Cooper; title: Legends of the fall / Louis de Bernieres; title: Who shot Johnny? / Debra Dickerson; title: In the face / Richard Ford; title: Rat patrol: a saga / Frank Gannon; title: Northeast direct / Dagoberto Gilb; title: We are still only human / Verlyn Klinkenborg; title: Ring leader / Natalie Kusz; title: Don't get comfortable / Nation Leslie; title: Twenty-fish days / Thomas McGuane; title: Backlogs of history / Cullen Murphy; title: A drugstore Eden / Cynthia Ozick; title: My father / Luke Chapman Reilly; title: Living in tongues / Luc Sante; title: My habit / Paul Sheehan; title: Dinner at Uncle Boris's / Charles Simic; title: Black swans / Lauren Slater; title: A century of cinema / Susan Sontag; title: Ali in Havana / Gay Talese; title: The gangster we are all looking for / Le Thi Diem Thuy; title: The case against babies / Joy Williams.