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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Overlooked excellence,
By Emmett Miller (Burton, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Best American Essays 1999 (Paperback)
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."
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another solid edition,
This review is from: The Best American Essays 1999 (Paperback)
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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The Best American Essays 1999 by Edward Hoagland (Paperback - October 29, 1999)
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