02492cam a2200397Ia 4500 86027 20230410132701.0 001019s2000 mau b 000 0 eng d (OCoLC)ocm45197649 JED JED DPL NVC NOR OCLCQ BAKER YDXCP OCLCG B9K 0618035788 (hc) : $27.50 9780618035786 (hc) 061803580X (pbk.) 9780618035809 (pbk.) YDXCP 1696125 AU@ 000023279130 (OCoLC)45197649 PS 688 B561 2000 814.08 GRAL The best American essays. 2000 / edited and with an introduction by Alan Lightman ; Robert Atwan, series editor. Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 2000. xviii, 233 p. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233). Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction / Alan Lightman -- The last time I saw Paris / Andrâe Aciman -- In distrust of movements / Wendell Berry -- The joys and perils of victimhood / Ian Buruma -- A son in shadow / Fred D'Aguiar -- Westbury court / Edwidge Danticat -- In defense of the book / William H. Gass -- Rome : the visible city / Mary Gordon -- Earth's eye / Edward Hoagland -- Those words that echo ... echo ... echo ... through life / Jamaica Kincaid -- If you are what you eat, then what am I? / Geeta Kothari -- The resurrectionist / Richard McCann -- The synthetic sublime / Cynthia Ozick -- The force of spirit / Scott Russell Sanders -- At a certain age / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- The Singer solution to world poverty / Peter Singer -- Gray area : thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot -- Listening for silence / Mark Slouka -- Heroin/e / Cheryl Strayed -- What's so bad about hate? / Andrew Sullivan -- A designer universe? / Steven Weinberg -- A shark in the mind of one contemplating wilderness / Terry Tempest Williams -- Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 1999. American essays 20th century. Ensayos americanos Siglo XX. Lightman, Alan P., 1948- Atwan, Robert. Baker & Taylor BKTY 13.00 9.75 061803580X 0003538763 active Baker & Taylor BKTY 27.50 20.63 0618035788 0003538795 active YBP Library Services YANK 1696125 lcc bk C0 DRFGD sh 85893 85893 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 PS 688 B561 2000 00000079376 2018-10-25 00:00:00 2018-10-25 bk