The best American essays, 1994
By: edited and with an introduction by Tracy Kidder ; Robert Atwan, series editor
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780395692547; 9780395692530
Subjects: American essays
Description: Includes essays by Ted Conover, Andre Dubus III, Stanley Elkin, Louise Erdrich, Ian Frazier, Stephen Jay Gould, James A. McPherson, Cynthia Ozick, Paul Theroux, and John Updike.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Robert Atwan; title: Introduction  -- Tracy Kidder; title: Survival of the fittest  -- Nicholson Baker; title: Trucking through the AIDS belt  -- Ted Conover; title: Does Homer have legs?  -- David Denby; title: Tracks and ties  -- Andrew Dubus III; title: Out of one's tree  -- Stanley Elkin; title: Skunk dreams  -- Louise Erdrich -- The; title: frankest interview yet  -- Ian Frazier -- The; title: last shot  -- Darcy Frey; title: Death in Venice  -- Adam Gopnik; title: Cordelia's dilemma  -- Stephen Jay Gould; title: Mirrorings  -- Lucy Grealy; title: Can an ape tell a joke?  -- Vicki Hearne; title: Alien Soil  -- Jamaica Kincaid; title: Escape from Moscow  -- Mark Kramer -- The; title: turn  -- William Langewiesche; title: Ivy day in the empty room  -- James A. McPherson; title: Lots  -- S. Oso; title: Rushdie in the Louvre  -- Cynthia Ozick; title: Striptease  -- Lauren Slater; title: Chatwin revisited  -- Paul Theroux -- The; title: disposable rocket  -- John Updike; title: Biographical notes --; title: Notable essays of 1993.