The Best American Essays of the Century by Joyce Carol Oates

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The Best American Essays of the Century by Joyce Carol Oates

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The Best American Essays of the Century by Joyce Carol Oates

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.

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ISBN 13 9780618155873
ISBN 10 0618155872
Title The Best American Essays of the Century
Author Joyce Carol Oates
Series Best American
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Mariner Books
Year published 2001-10-10
Number of pages 624
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.