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_b.B47 1991
245 0 4 _aThe best American essays, 1991 /
_cedited and with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates.
260 _aNew York :
_bTicknor & Fields,
_c1991.
300 _axxiii, 279 p. ;
_c22 cm.
505 0 _aRandom 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.
650 0 _aAmerican essays
_y20th century.
700 1 _aOates, Joyce Carol,
_d1938-
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