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Ticknor & Fields
Language
English
Pages
328

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Table of Contents

Foreword -- Robert Atwan
Introduction -- Annie Dillard
London - 1944 -- Mary Lee Settle
Kinds of water -- Anne Carson
After Yitzl -- Albert Goldbarth
Okinawa : the bloodiest battle of all -- William Manchester -- The
feeling of flying -- Samuel Hynes
Gettysburg -- Arthur C. Danto
Home -- William Kittredge
Heroes among the barbarians -- James McConkey
My two one-eyed coaches -- George Garrett
Beacons burning down -- Bernard Cooper
L'après-midi de Mary Garden -- Paul Horgan -- The
heart of the seasons -- Elizabeth Hardwick
Dreaming in public : a Provincetown memoir -- Susan Mitchell
On the pilgrim's path to Lourdes -- Eleanor Munro -- A
mask on the face of death -- Richard Selzer
Walls : a journey to Auburn -- Kenneth A. McClane
Notes from the country club -- Kimberly Wozencraft
Wadi-bashing in Arabia deserta -- Russell Fraser -- The
honorable member for Houghton -- E.J. Kahn, Jr.
Reading philosophy at night -- Charles Simic
Biographical notes --
Notable essays of 1987.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.84
Library of Congress
PS688 .B47 1988

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 328 p. ;
Number of pages
328

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24751327M
Internet Archive
bestamericanessa00dill
ISBN 10
0899197302, 0899197299
ISBN 13
9780899197302, 9780899197296
OCLC/WorldCat
18722971

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