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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18722971 Title: The best American essays 1988 Author: Annie Dillard; Robert Atwan Publisher: New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1988. ISBN/ISSN: 0899197302 9780899197302 0899197299 9780899197296 OCLC:18722971

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The best American essays 1988

Author:	Annie Dillard; Robert Atwan
Publisher:	New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1988.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Database:	WorldCat
Summary:	Compiles a selection of the best literary essays of the year 1987 which were originally published in American periodicals.
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Subjects	American essays -- 20th century. American essays.
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Annie Dillard; Robert Atwan Find more information about:
ISBN:	0899197302 9780899197302 0899197299 9780899197296
OCLC Number:	18722971
Description:	xxii, 328 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:	Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction / Annie Dillard -- London -- 1944 / Mary Lee Settle -- Kinds of water / Anne Carson -- After Yitzl / Albert Goldbarth -- Okinawa : the bloodiest battle of all / William Manchester -- The feeling of flying / Samuel Hynes -- Gettysburg / Arthur C. Danto -- Home / William Kittredge -- Heroes among the barbarians / James McConkey -- My two one-eyed coaches / George Garrett -- Beacons burning down / Bernard Cooper -- L'après-midi de Mary Garden / Paul Horgan -- The heart of the seasons / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Dreaming in public : a Provincetown memoir / Susan Mitchell -- On the pilgrim's path to Lourdes / Eleanor Munro -- A mask on the face of death / Richard Selzer -- Walls : a journey to Auburn / Kenneth A. McClane -- Notes from the country club / Kimberly Wozencraft -- Wadi-bashing in Arabia deserta / Russell Fraser -- The honorable member for Houghton / E.J. Kahn, Jr. -- Reading philosophy at night / Charles Simic -- Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 1987.
Responsibility:	edited and with an introduction by Annie Dillard ; Robert Atwan, series editor.

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