The best American essays. 2000 /
The best American essays. 2000 /
edited and with an introduction by Alan Lightman ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
- Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
- xviii, 233 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233).
Foreword / Introduction / The last time I saw Paris / In distrust of movements / The joys and perils of victimhood / A son in shadow / Westbury court / In defense of the book / Rome : the visible city / Earth's eye / Those words that echo ... echo ... echo ... through life / If you are what you eat, then what am I? / The resurrectionist / The synthetic sublime / The force of spirit / At a certain age / The Singer solution to world poverty / Gray area : thinking with a damaged brain / Listening for silence / Heroin/e / What's so bad about hate? / A designer universe? / A shark in the mind of one contemplating wilderness / Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 1999. Robert Atwan -- Alan Lightman -- Andrâe Aciman -- Wendell Berry -- Ian Buruma -- Fred D'Aguiar -- Edwidge Danticat -- William H. Gass -- Mary Gordon -- Edward Hoagland -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Geeta Kothari -- Richard McCann -- Cynthia Ozick -- Scott Russell Sanders -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Peter Singer -- Floyd Skloot -- Mark Slouka -- Cheryl Strayed -- Andrew Sullivan -- Steven Weinberg -- Terry Tempest Williams --
0618035788 (hc) : $27.50 9780618035786 (hc) 061803580X (pbk.) 9780618035809 (pbk.)
American essays--20th century.
Ensayos americanos--Siglo XX.
PS 688 / B561 2000
814.08
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233).
Foreword / Introduction / The last time I saw Paris / In distrust of movements / The joys and perils of victimhood / A son in shadow / Westbury court / In defense of the book / Rome : the visible city / Earth's eye / Those words that echo ... echo ... echo ... through life / If you are what you eat, then what am I? / The resurrectionist / The synthetic sublime / The force of spirit / At a certain age / The Singer solution to world poverty / Gray area : thinking with a damaged brain / Listening for silence / Heroin/e / What's so bad about hate? / A designer universe? / A shark in the mind of one contemplating wilderness / Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 1999. Robert Atwan -- Alan Lightman -- Andrâe Aciman -- Wendell Berry -- Ian Buruma -- Fred D'Aguiar -- Edwidge Danticat -- William H. Gass -- Mary Gordon -- Edward Hoagland -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Geeta Kothari -- Richard McCann -- Cynthia Ozick -- Scott Russell Sanders -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Peter Singer -- Floyd Skloot -- Mark Slouka -- Cheryl Strayed -- Andrew Sullivan -- Steven Weinberg -- Terry Tempest Williams --
0618035788 (hc) : $27.50 9780618035786 (hc) 061803580X (pbk.) 9780618035809 (pbk.)
American essays--20th century.
Ensayos americanos--Siglo XX.
PS 688 / B561 2000
814.08