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The Best American Essays 2005 2005 Edition
Contributor(s): Orlean, Susan (Author), Atwan, Robert (Author)

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 ISBN: 0618357130     ISBN-13: 9780618357130
Publisher: Mariner Books
OUR PRICE: $18.95  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2005
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Annotation: Now in its 20th year, this "consistently refined and lively series" (Booklist) still highlights "the best that the form can be" (Philadelphia Inquirer). This year's collection highlights lively and provocative writing from Roger Angell, Andrea Barrett, David Sedaris, Holly Welker, and others.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Collections | American - General
Dewey: 814.008
LCCN: 97072434
Series: Best American Essays
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" L (0.90 lbs) 320 pages
Features: Table of Contents
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/15/2005 pg. 49
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2005 pg. 902
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 128
Library Journal 10/15/2005 pg. 58
Booklist 10/01/2005 pg. 16
 
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Publisher Description:
The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind.

The Best American Essays 2005 includes

Roger Angell - Andrea Barrett - Jonathan Franzen - Ian Frazier - Edward Hoagland - Ted Kooser - Jonathan Lethem - Danielle Ofri - Oliver Sacks - Cathleen Schine - David Sedaris - Robert Stone - David Foster Wallace - and others

Susan Orlean, guest editor, is the author of My Kind of Place, The Orchid Thief, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, and Saturday Night. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1982, she has also written for Outside, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Vogue.

Contributor Bio(s): Atwan, Robert: - ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide.
 
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