The best American essays, 1999 / 
edited and with an introduction by Edward Hoagland ; Robert Atwan, series editor. 
 - Boston, MA :  Houghton Mifflin,  1999. 
 - xix, 297 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>In search of Proust / Andre Aciman -- Torch Song / Charles Bowden -- Compression wood / Franklin Burroughs -- Visitor / Michael W. Cox -- Last words /Joan Didion -- For the time being / Annie Dillard -- The meteorites / Brian Doyle -- A lovely sort of lower purpose / Ian Frazier -- Victoria / Dagoberto Gilb -- Still life / Mary Gordon -- A week in the word / Patricia Hampl -- The country below / Barbara Hurd -- The lion and me / John Lahr -- Making it up / Hilary Masters -- On the Fedala road / John McNeel -- American heartworm / Ben Metcalf -- Before air conditioning / Arthur Miller -- After amnesia / Joyce Carol Oates -- The impious impatience of Job / Cynthia Ozick -- Planet of weeds / David Quammen -- On silence / Daisy Eunyoung Rhau -- Beauty / Scott Russell Sanders -- Hitler's couch / Mark Slouka -- What's inside you, brother? / Toure -- Folding the Times / George W. S. Trow. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0395860555 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American essays--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS688  / .B47 1999