TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ward,Geoffrey C.
AU  - Atwan,Robert
TI  - The best American essays, 1996
SN  - 0395717574
AV  - PS688 .B47 1996
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - American essays
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Cather and the academy / Joan Acocella -- Books as furniture / Nicholson Baker -- Midnight in the garden of good and Elvis / Julie Baumgold -- Influenza 1918 / Jane Brox -- The trouble with wilderness / William Cronon -- Hooked / Stanley Crouch -- Understanding Afrocentrism : why Blacks dream of a world without whites / Gerald Early -- The art of the nap / Joseph Epstein -- A lesson from Michelangelo / James Fenton -- Take the F / Ian Frazier -- The ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi / Amitav Ghosh -- Wonderland / Adam Gopnik -- The Black widow / Gordon Grice -- Brightness visible / Edward Hoagland -- Coming home again / Chang-Rae Lee -- Crabcakes / James Alan McPherson -- They all just went away / Joyce Carol Oates -- Owls / Mary Oliver -- Slouching toward Washington / Darryl Pinckney -- Last call of the wild / Jonathan Raban -- One violent crime / Bruce Shapiro -- A case of the great pox / William Styron
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