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245 4 _aThe best American essays 2007 /
_cedited and with an introduction by David Foster Wallace ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
260 _aBoston :
_bHoughton Mifflin,
_cc2007.
300 _axxiv, 307 p.
_c21 cm.
520 _a and the Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson attempts to find common ground with the evangelical community.
520 _a the essayist Richard Rodriguez wonders if California has anything left to say to America
520 _a the novelist Marilynne Robinson explores what has happened to holiness in contemporary Christianity
520 _a the poet Molly Peacock constructs a mosaic tribute to a little-known but remarkable eighteenth-century woman artist
520 _aThe twenty-two essays in this powerful collection - perhaps the most diverse in the entire series - come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative - in first and third person - opinion, memoir, argument, the essay-review, confession, reportage, even a dispatch from Iraq. The philosopher Peter Singer makes a case for philanthropy
650 _aAmerican essays
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650 _aEssays.
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