TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lightman,Alan P.
AU  - Atwan,Robert
TI  - The best American essays
SN  - 0618035788 (hc) :
AV  - PS 688 B561 2000
U1  - 814.08 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - American essays
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Ensayos americanos
KW  - Siglo XX
N1  - 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
ER  -