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_b.B47 1998
245 0 4 _aThe best American essays, 1998 /
_cedited and with an introduction by Cynthia Ozick ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
260 _aBoston, MA :
_bHoughton Mifflin,
_c1998.
300 _axxi, 260 p. ;
_c22 cm.
505 0 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aAmerican essays
_y20th century.
700 1 _aOzick, Cynthia.
700 1 _aAtwan, Robert.
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