The Best American Essays of the Century by Joyce Carol Oates

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
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