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BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, 1991

by Joyce Carol Oates

Out of Print

Table of Contents

Random reflections of a second-rate mind / Woody Allen — The female body / Margaret Atwood — The female body / John Updike — Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer — Running the Table / Frank Conroy — Life with daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant / Gerald Early — This autumn morning / Gretel Ehrlich — Wounded chevy at Wounded Knee / Diana Hume George — Counters and cable cars / Stephen Jay Gould — New York City: Crash course / Elizabeth Hardwick — Kubota / Garrett Hongo — Maintenance / Naomi Shihab Nye — Late victorians / Richard Rodriguez — Seeking home / Dorien Ross — Mosaic on walking / Mark Rudman — The ideal particle and the great unconformity / Reg Saner — Mother Tongue / Amy Tan — At the Buffalo Bill Museum--June 1988 / Jane Tompkins — On being white, female, and born in Bensonhurst / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick — Questions of conquest / Mario Vargas Llosa — The killing game / Joy Williams.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780899199283
Author:
Oates, Joyce Carol
Publisher:
Ticknor & Fields
Location:
New York :
Subject:
American essays
Copyright:
Series Volume:
no. 403
Publication Date:
1991
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Pages:
xxiii, 279 p.

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