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The Best American Essays of the Century - by Joyce Carol Oates (Paperback)
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Highlights
- This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists.
- 624 Pages
- Literary Collections, Essays
- Series Name: Best American
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About the Book
This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age as experienced by the nation's foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists.Book Synopsis
This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to larger significance without severing the connection between speaker and audience.From Ernest Hemingway covering bullfights in Pamplona to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," these essays fit, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, "into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest[ing] where we've come from, and who we are, and where we are going." Among those whose work is included are Mark Twain, John Muir, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe, Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joan Didion, Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Hoagland, and Annie Dillard.
Review Quotes
". . . Oates has assembled a provocative collection of masterpieces reflecting both the fragmentation and surprising cohesiveness of various American identities." Publishers Weekly, Starred --
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.1 Inches (W) x 1.7 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.35 Pounds
Suggested Age: 14 Years
Number of Pages: 624
Genre: Literary Collections
Sub-Genre: Essays
Series Title: Best American
Publisher: Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Language: English
Street Date: October 10, 2001
TCIN: 13846368
UPC: 9780618155873
Item Number (DPCI): 248-77-0791
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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