The Best American Essays of the Century by Joyce Carol Oates (9780618127665)
Joyce Carol Oates Release Date: 30 April 2001 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Mariner Books ISBN: 9780618127665 ISBN-10: 0618127666
For this singular collection, Joyce Carol Oates selected fifty-five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century. Here is a sampling -- twelve unabridged essays -- featuring a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the genre, along with authors reading their own work. Nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS OF THE CENTURY is "an outstanding, galvanic collection" (Entertainment Weekly).