The Best American Travel Writing 2005
by Jamaica Kincaid (Editor), Jason Wilson (Editor)
The Best American Travel Writing (2005), Best American (2005)
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The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind. The Best American Travel Writing 2005 includes William Least-Heat Moon show more * Ian Frazier * John McPhee * William T. Vollmann * Simon Winchester * Tom Bissell * Madison Smartt Bell * Timothy Bascom * Pam Houston * and others Jamaica Kincaid, guest editor, is the author of numerous award-winning works, including the memoirs My Brother and The Autobiography of My Mother and the novel Annie John. Her travelogue Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas appeared in 2005. She lives in Vermont with her two children and a garden, in which she travels a great deal. show lessTags
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I really enjoyed this book and have enjoyed other books in this series which are published annually. There are 25 or so stories by different authors about experiences around the world. They are not all simple stories of, say, someone's week in Paris or Rome. A story might be, for example, from a war correspondent in Afghanistan. Every year someone different chooses the final selections to be published so the books are always quite different.
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Jamaica Kincaid came to the United States in 1966 as a free-lance writer and is now on staff at the New Yorker. Her first volume of stories, At the Bottom of the River (1983), depicts men and women alienated from each other by conflict, physical separation, or death. The story "My Mother" vividly describes the painful separation between mother and show more daughter; and the stories in Annie John (1985) clearly reveal that the world of the past cannot be recaptured. Kincaid's poetic use of language and everyday images allows the reader to experience ordinary events with a new and heightened sensitivity. Kincaid is a relatively new writer whose works are beginning to receive critical attention. (Bowker Author Biography) Jamaica Kincaid, novelist, memoirist, & essayist, was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother, all published by FSG. She lives with her family in Vermont. (Publisher Provided) show less
Jason Wilson is the author of Boozehound and The Cider Revival, and the series editor of The Best American Travel Writing. A regular contributor to the Washington Post, he has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, AFAR Preservation, and many other magazines and newspapers.
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- The Best American Travel Writing 2005
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- 2005
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