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082 0 _a814.08 BES
245 1 0 _aThe best American essays 2009
_c/ edited and with an introduction by Mary Oliver, Robert Atwan, Series Editor
260 _aNew York
_b: Mariner Books
_c, 2009
300 _a202 p.
_c; 21 cm.
500 _aTaking a reading / Sue Allen -- (En)trance / Chris Arthur -- Portrait of a masked man / John Berger -- Faustian economics / Wendell Berry -- Greatest nature essay ever / Brian Doyle -- Cherish this ecstasy / David James Duncan -- Dark art of description / Patricia Hampl -- And such small deer / Garret Keizer -- Our vanishing night / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- You be the moon / Amy Leach -- Mansion : a subprime parable / Michael Lewis -- Madre de Dios / Barry Lopez -- Faint music / James Marcus -- Cuss time / Jill McCorkle -- Dog is our copilot / Kathryn Miles -- Return to Hayneville / Gregory Orr -- Ghost writers / Cynthia Ozick -- God of the desert / Richard Rodriguez -- Shipwrecked / Janna Malamud Smith -- Writer in winter / John Updike -- First / Ryan Van Meter -- Mechanics of being / Jerald Walker.
650 4 _aAmerican essays
_y--21st century
700 1 _aOliver, Mary
_d(, 1935-2019)
700 1 _aAtwan, Robert
942 _cMO
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