The Best American Essays 1988 Author:Annie Dillard (Editor) Compiles a selection of the best literary essays of the year 1987 which were originally published in American periodicals. — Foreword / Robert Atwan -- — Introduction / Annie Dillard -- — London -- — 1944 / Mary Lee Settle -- — Kinds of Water / Anne Carson -- — After Yitzl / Albert Goldbarth -- — Okinawa : The Bloodiest Battle of All / William Manchest... more »er --
The Feeling of Flying / Samuel Hynes --
Gettysburg / Arthur C. Danto --
Home / William Kittredge --
Heroes Among the Barbarians / James McConkey --
My Two One-Eyed Coaches / George Garrett --
Beacons Burning Down / Bernard Cooper --
L'ApreÌs-midi de Mary Garden / Paul Horgan --
The Heart of the Seasons / Elizabeth Hardwick --
Dreaming in Public : A Provincetown Memoir / Susan Mitchell --
On the Pilgrim's Path to Lourdes / Eleanor Munro --
A Mask on the Face of Death / Richard Selzer --
Walls : A Journey to Auburn / Kenneth A. McClane --
Notes from the Country Club / Kimberly Wozencraft --
Wadi-Bashing in Arabia Deserta / Russell Fraser --
The Honorable Member for Houghton / E.J. Kahn, Jr. --