Description
Best-selling author Alan Lightman selects the year's finest nonfiction as this acclaimed series celebrates its fifteenth year. He has chosen a diverse, very personal collection that celebrates the essay as an independent genre unlike any other. This year's pieces embrace stylistic freedom and strong opinions and afford the reader a fascinating view of the writer's mind as it struggles with truth, memory, and experience. Featured writers include Jamaica Kincaid, Edward Hoagland, Cynthia Ozick, Mary Gordon, Edwidge Danticat, and others.
Author: Robert Atwan, Alan Lightman
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 10/26/2000
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.46w x 0.68d
ISBN13: 9780618035809
ISBN10: 061803580X
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Collections | American | General