TY - BOOK AU - Oates,Joyce Carol AU - Atwan,Robert TI - The Best American Essays 1991 SN - 9780899199290 AV - PS 688 B47.1991 PY - 1991/// CY - New York PB - Ticknor & Fields KW - American essays KW - 20th century KW - Ensayos norteamericanos - KW - Siglo XX N1 - Foreword; Robert Atwan --; Introduction; Joyce Carol Oates --; Random Reflections of a Second-Rate Mind; Woody Allen --; The Female Body; Margaret Atwood --; The Female Body; John Updike --; Silent Dancing; Judith Ortiz Cofer --; Running the Table; Frank Conroy --; Life with Daughters : Watching the Miss America Pageant; Gerald Early --; This Autumn Morning; Gretel Ehrlich --; Wounded Chevy at Wounded Knee; Diana Hume George --; Counters and Cable Cars; Stephen Jay Gould --; New York City : Crash Course; Elizabeth Hardwick --; Kubota; Garrett Hongo --; Maintenance; Naomi Shihab Nye --; Late Victorians; Richard Rodriguez --; Seeking Home; Dorien Ross --; Mosaic on Walking; Mark Rudman --; The Ideal Particle and the Great Unconformity; Reg Saner --; Mother Tongue; Amy Tan --; At the Buffalo Bill Museum -- June 1988; Jane Tompkins --; On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst; Marianna De Marco Torgovnick --; Questions of Conquest; Mario Vargas Llosa --; The Killing Game; Joy Williams --; Biographical Notes --; Notable Essays of 1990 ER -