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050		4	_aPS688 _b.B47 1996
245	0	4	_aThe best American essays, 1996 / _cedited and with an introduction by Geoffrey C. Ward ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
260			_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin, _c1996.
300			_axiv, 370 p. ; _c21 cm.
505	0		_aCather 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.
650		0	_aAmerican essays _y20th century.
700	1		_aWard, Geoffrey C.
700	1		_aAtwan, Robert.
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