Dating Your Mom - Hardcover

Ian Frazier

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241119995 ISBN 13: 9780241119990

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1987

Synopsis

These twenty-four stories range from parody to absurd humor, from farce to outlandish personal fantasy

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Review

Open Dating Your Mom to any page and begin to read; chances are you won't make it 10 seconds without laughing. ("In today's fast-moving, transient, rootless society, where people meet and make love and part without ever really touching, the relationship every guy already has with his own mother is too valuable to ignore. Here is a grown, experienced, loving woman...") A collection of Ian Frazier's New Yorker pieces from the 1970s and '80s, it's a tremendous book. Frazier is undoubtedly one of the finest living humorists--a Thurber Prize-winner--and Dating Your Mom is what cemented his reputation. His jokes are turned just so, and if the subject matter can be a little elliptical, (as in the story "Bob's Bob House") that flaw is more than excused by the guffaws that surround it.

About the Author

Ian Frazier is the author of Great Plains, On the Rez, Family, Coyote v. Acme, and most recently The Fish’s Eye. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0241119995
• ISBN 13: 9780241119990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144