The Beacon Best of 2000
Subtitle: great writing by women and men of all colors and cultures
By: Edwidge Danticat, guest editor
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780807062456
Subjects: Short stories; Essays; Collections; Poetry
Table of contents: title: No countries but the distance of the world  -- Nicholas Samaras; title: The toughest Indian in the world  -- Sherman Alexie; title: Rope burn  -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; title: Pissarro at dusk  -- Derek Walcott; title: Planting sticks and grinding yucca : on being a translated writer  -- Julia Alvarez; title: From senoritas in love  -- Jaime Manrique; title: Pet fly  -- Walter Mosley; title: The volunteers  -- Chang-rae Lee; title: Ten thousand in the round  -- Lois-Ann Yamanaka; title: My grandmother's tale of how crab-o lost his head  -- Robert Antoni; title: Family album  -- Diane Thiel; title: A son in shadow  -- Fred D'Aguiar; title: Charisma : a fiction  -- Ai; title: Precious and her hair  -- Ifeona Fulani; title: The end of empire  -- Pico Iyer; title: Three keys  -- Lidia Torres; title: Standing at the crossroads  -- Bryant Keith Alexander; title: Speak  -- Aimee Nezhukumatathil; title: Death of the cowboy  -- Larry McMurtry; title: A ride to the wedding  -- Phebus Etienne; title: Fathering words  -- E. Ethelbert Miller; title: My middle kingdom  -- Adrienne Su; title: Oath taking  -- Opal Palmer Adissa; title: Walking  -- Kate Krautkramer; title: Suffering -- Kyoko Mori.