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The best American essays, 1991 / edited and with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1991.Description: xxiii, 279 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0899199283 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS688 .B47 1991
Contents:
Random reflections of a second-rate mind / Woody Allen -- The female body / Margaret Atwood -- The female body / John Updike -- Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Running the Table / Frank Conroy -- Life with daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant / Gerald Early -- This autumn morning / Gretel Ehrlich -- Wounded chevy at Wounded Knee / Diana Hume George -- Counters and cable cars / Stephen Jay Gould -- New York City: Crash course / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Kubota / Garrett Hongo -- Maintenance / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Late victorians / Richard Rodriguez -- Seeking home / Dorien Ross -- Mosaic on walking / Mark Rudman -- The ideal particle and the great unconformity / Reg Saner -- Mother Tongue / Amy Tan -- At the Buffalo Bill Museum--June 1988 / Jane Tompkins -- On being white, female, and born in Bensonhurst / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick -- Questions of conquest / Mario Vargas Llosa -- The killing game / Joy Williams.
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Random reflections of a second-rate mind / Woody Allen -- The female body / Margaret Atwood -- The female body / John Updike -- Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Running the Table / Frank Conroy -- Life with daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant / Gerald Early -- This autumn morning / Gretel Ehrlich -- Wounded chevy at Wounded Knee / Diana Hume George -- Counters and cable cars / Stephen Jay Gould -- New York City: Crash course / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Kubota / Garrett Hongo -- Maintenance / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Late victorians / Richard Rodriguez -- Seeking home / Dorien Ross -- Mosaic on walking / Mark Rudman -- The ideal particle and the great unconformity / Reg Saner -- Mother Tongue / Amy Tan -- At the Buffalo Bill Museum--June 1988 / Jane Tompkins -- On being white, female, and born in Bensonhurst / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick -- Questions of conquest / Mario Vargas Llosa -- The killing game / Joy Williams.

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