Audio Book Reader: George Plimpton, Peter Kovner, Gloria Naylor, Peter Davison, Paul Beatty, Katha Pollitt, Kaye Gibbons, Donald Hall, Jorge Papo, Annie Dillard, Cynthia Ozick, and Gerald Early

The Best American Essays of the Century Audio Book

The Best American Essays of the Century:
Vol. 1
Editor: Joyce Carol Oates
Readers: George Plimpton, Peter Kovner, Gloria Naylor, Peter Davison, Paul Beatty, Katha Pollitt, Kaye Gibbons, Donald Hall, Jorge Papo, Annie Dillard, Cynthia Ozick, and Gerald Early

A singular collection by the finest American writers of the 20th century. The 12 selections in Volume 1 include superb short works by Annie Dillard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Mary McCarthy, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Rodriguez, and more. "Outstanding, galvanic collection... [They] speak just as eloquently today as they did when they were first published."—Entertainment Weekly » Read More

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Publish Date: 06/07/2001
ISBN: 9780618127665

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For this singular collection, Joyce Carol Oates selected fifty-five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century. Here is a sampling -- twelve unabridged essays -- featuring a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the genre, along with authors reading their own work. Nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS OF THE CENTURY is "an outstanding, galvanic collection" (Entertainment Weekly).

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Audio Book Reader: George Plimpton, Peter Kovner, Gloria Naylor, Peter Davison, Paul Beatty, Katha Pollitt, Kaye Gibbons, Donald Hall, Jorge Papo, Annie Dillard, Cynthia Ozick, and Gerald Early

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