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245 00 $aThis is my best :$bgreat writers share their favorite work /$cedited by Retha Powers and Kathy Kiernan.
246 10 $aGreat writers share their favorite work
250 $a1st Chronicle Books LLC paperback ed.
260 $aSan Francisco, Calif. :$bChronicle Books,$c2005.
300 $axi, 561 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $tDilbert, October 8, 2001 /$rScott Adams --$t"Jimmy Hoffa's odyssey" /$rAi --$tFrom Before we were free /$rJulia Alvarez --$t"Confessions of a lonely atheist" /$rNatalie Angier --$tFrom Timbuktu /$rPaul Auster --$t"Filthy with things" /$rT. Coraghessan Boyle --$tFrom Sweet summer /$rBebe Moore Campbell --$t"What to do" /$rHayden Carruth --$tFrom Caramelo /$rSandra Cisneros --$t"Mrs. Dutta writes a letter" /$rChitra Banerjee Divakaruni --$t"A short story" /$rEmma Donoghue --$t"Her island" /$rRita Dove --$tFrom "Tiger-frame glasses" /$rCarolyn Ferrell --$t"Dumped!" /$rHelen Fisher --$tFrom Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot /$rAl Franken --$t"Surprise" /$rMartin Gardner --$t"A hidden killer in Cajun country" /$rLaurie Garrett --$tFrom Migrations of the heart /$rMarita Golden --$t"The former first lady and the football hero" /$rA. M. Homes --$tFrom Fanatics and fools /$rArianna Huffington --$tFrom A taste for death /$rP. D. James --$t"Who's Irish?" /$rGish Jen --$tFrom Cherry /$rMary Karr --$tFrom The poisonwood bible /$rBarbara Kingsolver --$tFrom China men /$rMaxine Hong Kingston --$t"A gaggle of saints" /$rNeil LaBute --$tFrom Under my skin /$rDoris Lessing --$tFrom The fortress of solitude /$rJonathan Lethem --$t"My father with cigarette twelve years before the Nazis could break his heart" /$rPhilip Levine --$t"The mappist" /$rBarry Lopez --$tFrom "The facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios" /$rYann Martel --$tFrom Property /$rValerie Martin --$tFrom Salesman in Beijing /$rArthur Miller --$t"From Mao to America : a writer's remarkable journey" /$rAnchee Min --$tFrom Farewell the trumpets /$rJan Morris --$tFrom The wind up bird chronicle /$rHaruki Murakami --$t"The wedding at the courthouse" /$rKathleen Norris --$tFrom Intimate apparel /$rLynn Nottage --$t"The girl with the blackened eye" /$rJoyce Carol Oates --$t"Impossible to tell" /$rRobert Pinsky --$tFrom The botany of desire /$rMichael Pollan --$t"America : the multi-national society" /$rIshmael Reed --$t"The queen of mold" /$rRuth Reichl --$tFrom Anthropology : "normal," "pieces," "Madrid," "trick," "dust," "beauty," and "lesbian" /$rDan Rhodes --$tFrom Fierce invalids home from hot climates /$rTom Robbins --$t"Sand" /$rRichard Rodriguez --$t"Getting away from it all" /$rWitold Rybczynski --$t"Repeat after me" /$rDavid Sedaris --$t"Flakes of fire, handfuls of light" /$rHuston Smith --$tFrom Who needs donuts? /$rMark Alan Stamaty --$t"Frank Sinatra has a cold" /$rGay Talese --$tDoonesbury : "the golden hour" /$rGarry Trudeau --$tFrom The laws of our fathers /$rScott Turow --$tFrom Dinner at the homesick restaurant /$rAnne Tyler --$t"Your lover just called" /$rJohn Updike --$t"Son in the afternoon" /$rJohn A. Williams.
500 $aEach selection is introduced by the author.
520 1 $a"This is My Best invites today's most celebrated authors - fiction writers, essayists, poets, playwrights, and cartoonists - to select their own favorite work, and explain why. Their commentary, filled with personal reflections and insight into the creative process, is as richly rewarding as the selections themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043783
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y21st century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010784
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004341
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y21st century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117581
700 1 $aPowers, Retha.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001037232
700 1 $aKiernan, Kathy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94010528
852 00 $boff,glx$hPN6014$i.T48 2005g