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_b.B47 1997
245 0 4 _aThe Best American essays, 1997 /
_cedited and with an introduction by Ian Frazier ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
260 _aBoston :
_bHoughton Mifflin,
_cc1997.
300 _axxi, 226 p. ;
_c22 cm.
505 0 _aNotes on my mother / Hilton Als -- The fourth state of matter / Jo Ann Beard -- First tell me what kind of reader you are / Roy Blount -- Labyrinthine / Bernard Cooper -- Legends of the fall / Louis de Bernieres -- Who shot Johnny? / Debra Dickerson -- In the face / Richard Ford -- Rat patrol: a saga / Frank Gannon -- Northeast direct / Dagoberto Gilb -- We are still only human / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- Ring leader / Natalie Kusz -- Don't get comfortable / Naton Leslie -- Twenty-fish days / Thomas McGuane -- Backlogs of history / Cullen Murphy -- A drugstore Eden / Cynthia Ozick -- My father / Lukie Chapman Reilly -- Living in tongues / Luc Sante -- My habit / Paul Sheehan -- Dinner at Uncle Boris's / Charles Simic -- Black swans / Lauren Slater -- A century of cinema / Susan Sontag -- Ali in Havana / Gay Talese -- The gangster we are all looking for / Le Thi Diem Thuy -- The case against babies / Joy Williams.
650 0 _aAmerican essays
_y20th century.
700 1 _aFrazier, Ian.
700 1 _aAtwan, Robert.
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