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008			061026s2006 mau 000 0 eng d
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050		4	_aPS688.2 _b.B47 2006
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245	0	4	_aThe best American essays 2006 / _cedited and with an introduction by Lauren Slater ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
260			_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin, _cc2006.
300			_axxii, 277 p. ; _c21 cm.
440		0	_aBest American series.
505	0	0	_aForeword / by Robert Atwan -- Introduction / by Lauren Slater -- Kinsey and me / Laurie Abraham -- 501 minutes to Christ / Poe Ballantine -- Teaching the N-word / Emily Bernard -- City out of breath / Ken Chen -- Beginning dialogues / Toi Derricotte -- The culture of celebrity / Joseph Epstein -- Whistling in the dark / Eugene Goodheart -- Death of a fish / Adam Gopnik -- Relief / Kim Dana Kupperman -- Grammar lessons: the subjunctive mood / Michele Morano -- Lost dog / Susan Orlean -- George / Sam Pickering -- Shame / Robert Polito -- Illness as more than metaphor / David Rieff -- Recalled to life / David Sacks -- Confessions of a left-handed man / Peter Selgin -- Why write? / Alan Shapiro -- Group grief / Lily Tuck -- Missing Bellow / Scott Turow -- A matter of life and death / Marjorie Williams.
650		0	_aAmerican essays _y21st century.
700	1		_aSlater, Lauren.
700	1		_aAtwan, Robert.
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949			_aPS688.2 .B47 2006 _wLC _c1 _hEY8Z _i33039000764455
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