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The best American essays 2005 / edited and with an introduction by Susan Orlean ; Robert Atwan, series editor.

Contributor(s): Series: Best American seriesPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.Description: xviii, 292 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0618357130
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS688.2 .B47 2005
Contents:
Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction / Susan Orlean -- La Vie en Rose / Roger Angell -- The Sea of Information / Andrea Barrett -- Storm Country / Paul Crenshaw -- Joyas Voladoras / Brian Doyle -- Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog / Kitty Burns Florey -- The Comfort Aone / Jonathan Franzen -- If Memory Doesn't Serve / Ian Frazier -- Against Exercise / Mark Greif -- Small Silences / Edward Hoagland -- Small Rooms in Time / Ted Kooser -- Speak, Hoyt-Schermerhorn / Jonathan Lethem -- Mastering the Art of French Cooking / E.J. Levy -- Contributor's Note / Michael Martone -- My Friend Lodovico / David Masello -- Living Will / Danielle Ofri -- Dog Days / Sam Pickering -- Speed / Oliver Sacks -- Dog Trouble / Cathleen Schine -- Old Faithful David Sedaris -- Six Seconds / Paula Speck -- Skill Display In birding Groups / Bert O. States -- The Prince of Possibility / Robert Stone -- Dining With Robots / Ellen Ullman -- Consider the Lobster / David Foster Wallace -- Satin Worship / Holly Welker -- Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 2004.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS688.2 .B47 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000750272

Includes biographical notes (p. [279]-283).

Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction / Susan Orlean -- La Vie en Rose / Roger Angell -- The Sea of Information / Andrea Barrett -- Storm Country / Paul Crenshaw -- Joyas Voladoras / Brian Doyle -- Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog / Kitty Burns Florey -- The Comfort Aone / Jonathan Franzen -- If Memory Doesn't Serve / Ian Frazier -- Against Exercise / Mark Greif -- Small Silences / Edward Hoagland -- Small Rooms in Time / Ted Kooser -- Speak, Hoyt-Schermerhorn / Jonathan Lethem -- Mastering the Art of French Cooking / E.J. Levy -- Contributor's Note / Michael Martone -- My Friend Lodovico / David Masello -- Living Will / Danielle Ofri -- Dog Days / Sam Pickering -- Speed / Oliver Sacks -- Dog Trouble / Cathleen Schine -- Old Faithful David Sedaris -- Six Seconds / Paula Speck -- Skill Display In birding Groups / Bert O. States -- The Prince of Possibility / Robert Stone -- Dining With Robots / Ellen Ullman -- Consider the Lobster / David Foster Wallace -- Satin Worship / Holly Welker -- Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 2004.

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