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The Best American Essays (Paperback, 2006)
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The Best American Essays (Paperback, 2006)
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"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on
birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren
Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the
best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is
reflection in a context of kindness. The essays tell hard-won tales
wrestled sometimes from great pain."
The twenty powerful essays in this volume are culled from
periodicals ranging from The Sun to The New Yorker, from Crab
Orchard Review to Vanity Fair. In "Missing Bellow," Scott Turow
reflects on the death of an author he never met, but one who
"overpowered me in a way no other writer had." Adam Gopnik
confronts a different kind of death, that of his five-year-old
daughter's pet fish -- a demise that churns up nothing less than
"the problem of consciousness and the plotline of Hitchock's
Vertigo."
A pet is center stage as well in Susan Orlean's witty and
compassionate saga of a successful hunt for a stolen border collie.
Poe Ballantine chronicles a raw-nerved pilgrimage in search of
salvation, solace, and a pretty brunette, and Laurie Abraham, in
"Kinsey and Me," journeys after the man who dared to plumb the
mysteries of human desire. Marjorie Williams gives a harrowing yet
luminous account of her life with cancer, and Michele Morano muses
on the grammar of the subjunctive mood while proving that "in
language, as in life, moods are complicated, but at least in
language there are only two."
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