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Summary: Another solid edition
Review: Edward Hoagland has done a wonderful job in selecting a breadthof essays that radiate his and others various interests. The 1999essays takes us from the horrors of sexual abuse to the significance of Job to the beauty of "bogs." I particularly enjoyed David Quammen's "Planet of Weeds," an essay so compelling and upsetting that I sat shell-shocked after reading it. As usual, Ian Frazier impresses, and I particulary enjoyed Toure's "What's Inside You Brother?" My only disappointment is that the work doesn't have an essay from Hoagland; his modesty prevails.
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Summary: Another Fine Volume
Review: The Best American Essays Series adds another fine volume with the 1999 collection, edited by Edward Hoagland.A wonderful way to meet the work of new writers and add dimension to writers whose works may be best known to us in another format... from John Lahr, regular columnist in the "New Yorker" to Ian Frazier, best known of late for his novel "On The Rez'"-this collection introduces and informs us on writers of our time. Those who love the written word will not be disappointed in this varied collection.
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Summary: Overlooked excellence
Review: This is full of many great essays, all of them overlooked bits of excellent writing. My favorite is HITLER'S COUCH. Personal, historical, insightful, a prose poem about the tragic hellishness of this century and how it relates to the individual, without any self impressed "brilliance."
Rating:
Summary: Overlooked excellence
Review: This is full of many great essays, all of them overlooked bits of excellent writing. My favorite is HITLER'S COUCH. Personal, historical, insightful, a prose poem about the tragic hellishness of this century and how it relates to the individual, without any self impressed "brilliance."
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