Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"The work of a true listener and observer . . . Americana at its idiosyncratic best,'' PW wrote of these five New Yorker pieces. Frazier (Dating Your Mom) blends detailed reportage and subtle humor in essays on a household-hints columnist, Montana's bears, fishing and a Kansas town's anniversary celebration with Cheyenne Indians whose ancestors raided the village a century earlier.