The best American essays, 1998 /
The best American essays, 1998 /
edited and with an introduction by Cynthia Ozick ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
- Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
- xxi, 260 p. ; 22 cm.
The telephone / Anwar F. Accawi -- Shadow cities / Andre Aciman -- How I learned to speak Italian / Helen Barolini -- Graven images / Saul Bellow -- The merely very good / Jeremy Bernstein -- States of reading / Sven Birkerts -- What is realism? / J. M. Coetzee -- Altar boy / Brian Doyle -- Witness / Andre Dubus -- Will you still feed me? / Joseph Epstein -- Someplace in Queens / Ian Frazier -- The test of time / William H. Gass -- Two baths / Elizabeth Graver -- The peaceable kingdom / Edward Hoagland -- In history / Jamaica Kincaid -- Nearing ninety / William Maxwell -- Silk parachute / John McPhee -- Building the house / Mary Oliver -- Orion the hunter / Tim Robinson -- Water babies / Oliver Sacks -- The page turner / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Soldier's Heart / Louis Simpson -- A visit to Camelot / Diana Trilling -- Lost art / John Updike -- Real life / James Wood.
0395860520
American essays--20th century.
PS688 / .B47 1998
The telephone / Anwar F. Accawi -- Shadow cities / Andre Aciman -- How I learned to speak Italian / Helen Barolini -- Graven images / Saul Bellow -- The merely very good / Jeremy Bernstein -- States of reading / Sven Birkerts -- What is realism? / J. M. Coetzee -- Altar boy / Brian Doyle -- Witness / Andre Dubus -- Will you still feed me? / Joseph Epstein -- Someplace in Queens / Ian Frazier -- The test of time / William H. Gass -- Two baths / Elizabeth Graver -- The peaceable kingdom / Edward Hoagland -- In history / Jamaica Kincaid -- Nearing ninety / William Maxwell -- Silk parachute / John McPhee -- Building the house / Mary Oliver -- Orion the hunter / Tim Robinson -- Water babies / Oliver Sacks -- The page turner / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Soldier's Heart / Louis Simpson -- A visit to Camelot / Diana Trilling -- Lost art / John Updike -- Real life / James Wood.
0395860520
American essays--20th century.
PS688 / .B47 1998