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This is my best

great writers share their favorite work

1st Chronicle Books LLC paperback ed.
This is my best
Retha Powers, Kathy Kiernan
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great writers share their favorite work

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This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work
April 28, 2005, Chronicle Books
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Table of Contents

Dilbert, Oct. 8, 2001 / Scott Adams
Jimmy Hoffa's Odyssey / Ai
From: Before we were free / Julia Alvarez
Confessions of a lonely atheist / Natalie Angier
From: Timbuktu / Paul Auster
Filthy with things / T. Coraghessan Boyle
From: Sweet Summer / Bebe Moore Campbell
What to do / Hayden Carruth
From: Caramelo / Sandra Cisneros
Mrs. Dutta writes a letter / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
A short story / Emma Donoghue
Her island / Rita Dove
From: Tiger-frame glasses / Carolyn Ferrell
Dumped / Helen Fisher
From: Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot / Al Franken
Surprise / Martin Gardner
A hidden killer in Cajun country / Laurie Garrett
From: Migrations of the heart / Marita Golden
The former First Lady and the football hero / A.M. Homes
From: Fanatics and fools / Arianna Huffington
From: A taste for death / P.D. James
Who's Irish? / Gish Jen
From: Cherry / Mary Karr
From: The poisonwood bible / Barbara Kingsolver
From: China men / Maxine Hong Kingston
A gaggle of saints / Neil LaBute
From: Under my skin / Doris Lessing
From: The fortress of solitude / Jonathan Lethem
My father with cigarette ... / Philip Levine
The mappist / Barry Lopez.
From: The facts behind the Helsinki roccamatios / Yann Martel
From: Property / Valerie Martin
From: Salesman in Beijing / Arthur Miller
From Mao to America / Anchee Min
From: Farewell the trumpets / Jan Morris
From: The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami
The wedding at the courthouse / Kathleen Norris
From: Intimate apparel / Lynn Nottage
The girl with the blackened eye / Joyce Carol Oates
Impossible to tell / Robert Pinsky
From: The botany of desire / Michael Pollan
America, the multi-national society / Ishmael Reed
The queen of mold / Ruth Reichl
From Anthropology: Normal; Pieces; [and 5 others] / Dan Rhodes
From: Fierce invalids home from hot climates / Tom Robbins
Sand / Richard Rodriguez
Getting away from it all / Witold Rybczynski
Repeat after me / David Sedaris
Flakes of fire, handfuls of light / Huston Smith
From: Who needs donuts? / Mark Alan Stamaty
Frank Sinatra has a cold / Gay Talese
Doonesbury: The golden hour / Garry Trudeau
From: The laws of our fathers / Scott Turow
From: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / Anne Tyler
Your lover just called / John Updike
Son in the afternoon / John A. Williams.

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Each selection is introduced by the author.

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San Francisco, Calif
Other Titles
Great writers share their favorite work

Classifications

Library of Congress
PN6014 .T48 2005, PS536.2, PN6014 .T365 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 561 p. :
Number of pages
561

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL22378626M
ISBN 10
0811848299
OCLC/WorldCat
60515507
Goodreads
1020290

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL19609890W

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