The Best American Essays 1987.

TALESE, GAY [EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY].

Publication: Ticknor & Fields, 1987 Robert Atway, Series Editor, New York

First edition. Fine in dust jacket with very light soiling to front panel. Assembled are some of the very best essays published in 1987, with an eye toward the risky, the provocative, the unexpected. The editor looked for well-known writers who were breaking old barriers. Essays that inform, amuse, provoke, and tug at the heart. Contains Robert Stone's "A Higher Horror of Witness: Cocaine's Coloring of the American Psyche."

Inventory Number: 21532