Best American Essays 1986 - Softcover

Hardwick, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0899194745 ISBN 13: 9780899194745

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1987

Synopsis

Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals

About this title

From Library Journal:

This volume is the auspicious beginning of a new series. The editor, an acclaimed essayist, introduces 17 pieces from publications ranging from House & Garden to The Yale Review. They exemplify the rich scope and variety of the form. Among them are a discussion of boxing by Joyce Carol Oates, Alexander Cockburn's memories of an English boys' school, and Donald Barthelme on "Not-Knowing." Other writers are Julian Barnes, Joseph Brodsky, Gerald Early, Kai Erikson, Robert Fitzgerald, William Gass, Stephen J. Gould, Anne Hollander, George F. Kennan, Cynthia Ozick, Edward Rothstein, Frederick Turner, Gore Vidal, and John Wain. This has wide reader appeal, especially for students and teachers of composition. Starr E. Smith, Georgetown Univ. Lib., Washington,
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0899194745
• ISBN 13: 9780899194745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290