The Best American Essays 2020

The Best American Essays 2020 - Paperback

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The Best American Essays 2020 - Paperback

The Best American Essays 2020 - Paperback

by André Aciman , Robert Atwan
$16.99
$16.99

Book Overview

by André Aciman (Author), Robert Atwan (Author)

A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name.

"An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, are what ultimately give the writing its depth, its magnitude, its grace." The essays Aciman selected center on people facing moments of deep uncertainty, searching for a greater truth. From a Black father's confrontation of his son's illness, to a divorcée's transcendent experience with strangers, to a bartender grieving the tragic loss of a friend, these stories are a master class not just in essay writing but in empathy, artfully imbuing moments of hardship with understanding and that elusive grace.

The Best American 2020 Essays includes RABIH ALAMEDDINE - BARBARA EHRENREICH - LESLIE JAMISON JAMAICA KINCAID - ALEX MARZANO-LESNEVICH - A. O. SCOTT - JERALD WALKER - STEPHANIE POWELL WATTS and others

Author Biography

ANDRÉ ACIMAN, guest editor, is the author of Eight White Nights, Call Me by Your Name, Out of Egypt, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, and Enigma Variations, and is the editor of The Proust Project.

ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986.
Number of Pages: 336
Dimensions: 1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: November 03, 2020
ISBN9780358359913
Author André Aciman , Robert Atwan
PublisherMariner Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages336
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About André Aciman
André Aciman is the author of Eight White Nights, Out of Egypt, False Papers, Alibis, and Harvard Square, and the editor of The Proust Project (all published by FSG). He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and lives with his wife in Manhattan.
About Robert Atwan
ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide.

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