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The best American essays 1987 / edited by Gay Talese ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
Compiles a selection of the best literary essays of the year 1986 which were originally published in American periodicals.
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- ISBN: 0899194680
- ISBN: 9780899194684
- Physical Description: xxii, 323 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Ticknor & Fields, ©1987.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Teacher / John Barth -- What do you think of Ted Williams now? / Richard Ben Cramer -- On writing a novel / John Gregory Dunne -- Spring / Gretel Ehrlich -- The case of Harry Houdini / Daniel Mark Epstein -- They said you was high class / Joseph Epstein -- "This guy wouldn't give you the parsley off his fish" / Gary Giddins -- Winter / Donald Hall -- Against joie de vivre / Phillip Lopate -- The stone horse / Barry Lopez -- The master builder / Elting E. Morison -- The lay intellectual (apologia pro vita sua) / William Pfaff -- Pictures / Samuel Pickering, Jr. -- A stranger in Lolitaland / Gregor von Rezzori -- Tools of torture : an essay on beauty and pain / Phyllis Rose -- The inheritance of tools / Scott Russell Sanders -- A higher horror of the whiteness : cocaine's coloring of the American psyche / Robert Stone -- Rumors around town / Calvin Trillin -- Tiger in the road! / Geoffrey C. Ward -- Land of wizards / Tom Wolfe.
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| Lummi Library | PS 688 .B47 1987 | 2241134 | Stacks | Available | - |
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