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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/772100921 Title: The best American essays 2012 Author: David Brooks; Robert Atwan Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. ISBN/ISSN: 9780547840093 0547840098 OCLC:772100921

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The best American essays 2012

Author:	David Brooks; Robert Atwan
Publisher:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Series:	Best American series.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Database:	WorldCat
Summary:	Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2011 which were originally published in American periodicals.
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Subjects	American essays -- 21st century. American essays.
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	David Brooks; Robert Atwan Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780547840093 0547840098
OCLC Number:	772100921
Notes:	"A Mariner original."
Description:	xxiv, 310 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:	The foul reign of "self-reliance" / Benjamin Anastas -- The crazy state of psychiatry / Marcia Angell -- You owe me / Miah Arnold -- Edward Hopper and the geometry of despair / Geoffrey Bent -- A beauty / Robert Boyers -- The good short life / Dudley Clendinen -- Vanishing act / Paul Collins -- Insatiable / Mark Doty -- Who are you and what are you doing here? / Mark Edmundson -- Duh, bor-ing / Joseph Epstein -- Farther away / Jonathan Franzen -- Creation myth / Malcolm Gladwell -- Dr. Don / Peter Hessler -- Objects of affection / Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough -- Getting schooled / Garret Keizer -- My father/my husband / David J. Lawless -- The accidental universe / Alan Lightman -- The bitch is back / Sandra Tsing Loh -- How doctors die / Ken Murray -- Other women / Francine Prose -- Humanism / Richard Sennett -- Killing my body to save my mind / Lauren Slater -- Outlaw / Jose Antonio Vargas -- Paper tigers / Wesley Yang.
Series Title:	Best American series.
Responsibility:	edited and with an introduction by David Brooks ; Robert Atwan, series editor.

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Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2011 which were originally published in American periodicals.

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