The Best American Essays 1986 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0899194672 ISBN 13: 9780899194677

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1986

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
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0899194672
• ISBN 13: 9780899194677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Hardwick Elizabeth