Screen LibraryThe best American essays 2000
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Houghton Mifflin,
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| Publisher Address: | Boston, MA |
| Publication Dates: | 2000. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xviii, 233 p.: ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0618035788 (hc) 061803580X (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | I712 |
| CLC: | I712.65 |
| Call Number: | I712.65/B561 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233). The last time I saw Paris / André Aciman -- In distrust of movements / Wendell Berry -- The joys and perils of Victimhood / Ian Buruma -- A son in shadow / Fred D'aguiar -- Westbury court / Edwidge Danticat -- In defense of the book / William H. Gass -- Rome: the visible city / Mary Gordon -- Earth's eye / Edward Hoagland -- Those words that echo ... echo ... echo ... through life / Jamaica Kincaid -- If you are what you eat, then what am I? / Geeta Kothari -- The resurrectionist / Richard McCann -- The synthetic sublime / Cynthia Ozick -- The force of spirit / Scott Russell Sanders -- At a certain age / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- The singer solution to world poverty / Peter Singer -- Gray area: thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot -- Listening for silence / Mark Slouka -- Heroin/e / Cheryl Strayed -- What's so bad about hate? / Andrew Sullivan -- A designer universe? / Steven Weinberg -- A shark in the mind of one contemplating wilderness / Terry Tempest Williams. |