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The Best American Essays of the Century

(The Best American Series)

By Robert Atwan (Adapter)

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| Paperback | 9780618155873

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This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and importantContinue

This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to larger significance without severing the connection between speaker and audience. From Ernest Hemingway covering bullfights in Pamplona to Martin Luther King, Jr."s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," these essays fit, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, "into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest[ing] where we've come from, and who we are, and where we are going." Among those whose work is included are Mark Twain, John Muir, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe, Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joan Didion, Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Hoagland, and Annie Dillard.

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    More than mere stocking stuffers, audio cassettes and CDs make very presentable presents. Any of these recently published unabridged titles will give the gift of great listening and hours of entertainment. If you're looking for a BIG audio gift, you' ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 624 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0618155872
  • ISBN-13: 9780618155873
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Pub date: Oct 10, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 903 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
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