Fraud

Rakoff, David

ISBN 10: 038550084X / ISBN 13: 9780385500845

Published by Doubleday, New York, 2001

About this Item

Doubleday, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Condition: Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Quarter red cloth binding with silver lettering on spine, blue paper-covered boards, red endpapers. Spine is straight, corners are sharp and binding is firm. Foxing on top edge, else fine. The interior is clean with no markings of any kind. The unclipped dustjacket shows original $21.95 price, some scuffing and wear at corners. Now protected in a clear archival mylar cover. Rakoff has been a regular contributor to GQ (writer at large), The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Outside Magazine, Vogue, New York Magazine and Salon. This is the author's first book. Carefully packaged and shipped in a sturdy cardboard box.

Seller Inventory # 10843

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fraud
• Publisher: Doubleday, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038550084X
• ISBN 13: 9780385500845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: David Rakoff, illustrations; Chip Kidd, jacket design
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-fiction
  • Essays
  • Humor

About this title

Synopsis

You've heard him on This American Life! Now read his book!

Wherever he is, David Rakoff is a fish out of water. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, playing an evil modeling agent on a daytime soap opera, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds of New Jersey, Rakoff doesn't belong. Nor does he try to. Still, he continually finds himself off in the far-flung hinterlands of our culture, notebook or microphone in hand, hoping to conjure that dyed-in-the-wool New York condescension.

And Rakoff tries to be nasty; heaven knows nothing succeeds like the cheap sneer, but he can't quite help noticing that these are actual human beings he's writing about. In his attempts not to pull any punches, the most damaging blows, more often than not, land squarely on his own jaw--hilariously satirizing the writer, not the subject.

And therein lies David Rakoff's genius and his burgeoning appeal. The wry and the heartfelt join in his prose to resurrect that most neglected of literary virtues: wit.

Read the blurbs again on the back. They signal the arrival of a brilliant new American essayist. (Okay, Canadian.)

About the Author

David Rakoff is a regular contributor to Salon, Outside magazine, and PRI's This American Life, and has written for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, New York Observer, and many other publications. He lives in New York City.