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_aThe best American essays 2007 / _cedited and with an introduction by David Foster Wallace ; Robert Atwan, series editor. |
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_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin, _cc2007. |
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_axxiv, 307 p. _c21 cm. |
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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 | ||
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