About this title: "The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness. The essays tell hard-won tales wrestled sometimes from great pain." The twenty powerful essays in this volume are culled from periodicals ranging from The Sun to The New Yorker, from Crab Orchard Review to Vanity Fair. In "Missing Bellow," Scott Turow reflects on the death of an author he never ...
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Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780618333707ISBN:0618333703
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, New York
Date Published: 1998
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"Some very good stuff here -- much less interesting than the "regular" annual, and stupidly expensive (exploiting that textbook market), but the essays are ideal for undergraduates: short, from a range of voices, and connected to the issues that concern the 18yo set."
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