Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody - Hardcover

Frazier, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374223106 ISBN 13: 9780374223106

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1987

Synopsis

This collection of the author's reporting pieces that have appeared in "The New Yorker" includes a profile of Jim Deren, the famous fisherman who had a fishing tackle store near Grand Central Station, and a report on bears in Montana

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Nobody Better, Better than Nobody is a collection of five extended essays that appeared in The New Yorker from 1978 to 1986. In the tradition of A. J. Liebling and Joseph Mitchell, Frazier raises journalism to high literary art. His vivid stories showcase a strange and wonderful parade of American life, from portraits of Heloise, the syndicated household-hints columnist, and Jim Deren, the urban fly-fisher's guru, to small-town residents in western Kansas preparing to celebrate a historic, mutual massacre, to which they invite the Cheyenne Indians' descendants with the promise of free bowling. (51/2 X 81/4, 192 pages)

About the Author:

Ian Frazier is the author of Great Plains, The Fish's Eye, On the Rez, Family, and Travels in Siberia, as well as Dating Your Mom, Lamentations of the Father, and The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0374223106
• ISBN 13: 9780374223106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208