The Best American Essays of the Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618155873)

This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to larger significance without severing the connection between speaker and audience.
From Ernest Hemingway covering bullfights in Pamplona to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," these essays fit, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, "into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest[ing] where we've come from, and who we are, and where we are going." Among those whose work is included are Mark Twain, John Muir, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe, Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joan Didion, Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Hoagland, and Annie Dillard.

Author: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN-10: 0618155872
ISBN-13: 9780618155873
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2001
Pages: 624
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.70d

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 01/01/2002 pg. 23