Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody - Softcover

Frazier, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558215980 ISBN 13: 9781558215986

Publisher: Lyons Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Still sparkling, and worthy of a new edition, Frazier's 1987 work (Farrar Strauss) is reissued here with a new introduction by the author. The five essays were originally published in The New Yorker . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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: Lyons Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1558215980
• ISBN 13: 9781558215986
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 181