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Best American Essays 2000

Best American Essays 2000

by LightmanAlan P. Lightman and Robert Atwan
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/10/2000

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As this acclaimed series celebrates its fifteenth year, Alan Lightman, the best-selling author of Einstein's Dreams, has assembled a diverse, very personal collection of the year's best short nonfiction, writings that celebrate the essay as an independent genre unlike any other.In his introduction, he declares that the ideal essay is "not an assignment, to be dispatched efficiently and intelligently, but an exploration, a questioning, an introspection ...It thrashes and moves, like all living things." These pieces embrace stylistic freedom and strong opinions while affording the reader a fascinating view of work in progress, offering a front-row seat as the writer's mind struggles with truth, memory, and experience.
This year's selection features extraordinary essays by such renowned writers as Mary Gordon, Edward Hoagland, Jamaica Kincaid, and Wendell Berry as well by some talented new voices, on a delightfully dizzying variety of subjects.Andre Aciman wrestles with memories of remembering Paris, and William H.Gass delivers an exuberant defense of the printed book as a safe port in the data storms of the information age.Peter Singer views world poverty with an ethicist's eye, and Andrew Sullivan maps the spread of hate crimes in America.
"The qualities I treasure most about these essays are their authenticity and life," Lightman writes.As this volume of THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS demonstrates, this unique literary form continues to thrive as a creative outlet for some of America's finest writers.
ISBN:
9780618035809
9780618035809
Category:
Prose: non-fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-10-2000
Language:
English
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
210x140x13mm
Weight:
0.3kg

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