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Ticknor & Fields
Language
English
Pages
290

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Subjects
American essays, American essays, 20th century

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1986, Ticknor & Fields
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New York

Table of Contents

The follies of writer worship / Julian Barnes
Not-knowing / Donald Barthelme
Flight from Byzantium / Joseph Brodsky
Heatherdown : a late imperialist memoir / Alexander Cockburn
The passing of jazz's old guard : remembering Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Stitt / Gerald Early
Of accidental judgments and casual slaughters / Kai Erikson
When the cockroach stood by the mickle wood / Robert Fitzgerald
China still lifes / William Gass
Nasty little facts / Stephen Jay Gould
Dressed to thrill / Anne Hollander
Morality and foreign policy / George F. Kennan
On boxing / Joyce Carol Oates
The first day of school : Washington Square, 1946 / Cynthia Ozick
The body of Bach / Edward Rothstein
Visions of the Pacific / Frederick Turner
On Italo Calvino / Gore Vidal
Julia / John Wain.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.8
Library of Congress
PS688 .B47 1986

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Pagination
xxi, 290 p. ;
Number of pages
290

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24745007M
Internet Archive
bestamericanessa00hard
ISBN 10
0899194672, 0899194745
ISBN 13
9780899194677, 9780899194745
OCLC/WorldCat
14643040

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