The Best American essays, 1988
By: edited and with an introduction by Annie Dillard ; Robert Atwan, series editor
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780899197302; 9780899197296
Subjects: American essays
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Robert Atwan; title: Introduction  -- Annie Dillard; title: London - 1944  -- Mary Lee Settle; title: Kinds of water  -- Anne  Carson; title: After Yitzl  -- Albert Goldbarth; title: Okinawa : the bloodiest battle of all  -- William Manchester -- The; title: feeling of flying  -- Samuel Hynes; title: Gettysburg  -- Arthur C. Danto; title: Home  -- William Kittredge; title: Heroes among the barbarians  -- James McConkey; title: My two one-eyed coaches  -- George Garrett; title: Beacons burning down  -- Bernard Cooper; title: L'après-midi de Mary Garden  -- Paul Horgan -- The; title: heart of the seasons  -- Elizabeth Hardwick; title: Dreaming in public : a Provincetown memoir  -- Susan Mitchell; title: On the pilgrim's path to Lourdes  -- Eleanor Munro -- A; title: mask on the face of death  -- Richard Selzer; title: Walls : a journey to Auburn  -- Kenneth A. McClane; title: Notes from the country club  -- Kimberly Wozencraft; title: Wadi-bashing in Arabia deserta  -- Russell Fraser -- The; title: honorable member for Houghton  -- E.J. Kahn, Jr.; title: Reading philosophy at night  -- Charles Simic; title: Biographical notes --; title: Notable essays of 1987.