Dating Your Mom - Hardcover

Frazier, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374135088 ISBN 13: 9780374135089

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986

Synopsis

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

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Review

" A wickedly funny collection." -- "The New York Times"
" Not since Woody Allen' s several collections of short stories has there been so delightfully distorted a world view as the one that permeates this little book." -- "The Baltimore Sun"
" A great American writer." -- Jamaica Kincaid, author of" Mr. Potter"
" Perfectly groomed comic prose...It is the essence of society that concerns Frazier. That he is hilarious is just a bonus." -- "People"
" Bold, challenging humor that works as the inspiration for both laughs and thoughts." -- "The Philadelphia Inquirer"
“A wickedly funny collection.” —"The New York Times"
“Not since Woody Allen’s several collections of short stories has there been so delightfully distorted a world view as the one that permeates this little book.” —"The Baltimore Sun"
“A great American writer.” —Jamaica Kincaid, author of" Mr. Potter"
“Perfectly groomed comic prose...It is the essence of society that concerns Frazier. That he is hilarious is just a bonus.” —"People"
“Bold, challenging humor that works as the inspiration for both laughs and thoughts.” —"The Philadelphia Inquirer"
"A wickedly funny collection." --"The New York Times"
"Not since Woody Allen's several collections of short stories has there been so delightfully distorted a world view as the one that permeates this little book." --"The Baltimore Sun"
"A great American writer." --Jamaica Kincaid, author of" Mr. Potter"
"Perfectly groomed comic prose...It is the essence of society that concerns Frazier. That he is hilarious is just a bonus." --"People"
"Bold, challenging humor that works as the inspiration for both laughs and thoughts." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer"

A wickedly funny collection. "The New York Times"

Not since Woody Allen's several collections of short stories has there been so delightfully distorted a world view as the one that permeates this little book. "The Baltimore Sun"

A great American writer. "Jamaica Kincaid, author of Mr. Potter"

Perfectly groomed comic prose...It is the essence of society that concerns Frazier. That he is hilarious is just a bonus. "People"

Bold, challenging humor that works as the inspiration for both laughs and thoughts. "The Philadelphia Inquirer""

"A wickedly funny collection." --The New York Times

"Not since Woody Allen's several collections of short stories has there been so delightfully distorted a world view as the one that permeates this little book." --The Baltimore Sun

"A great American writer." --Jamaica Kincaid, author of Mr. Potter

"Perfectly groomed comic prose...It is the essence of society that concerns Frazier. That he is hilarious is just a bonus." --People

"Bold, challenging humor that works as the inspiration for both laughs and thoughts." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author

Ian Frazier is the author of Great Plains, The Fish's Eye, On the Rez, and Travels in Siberia, as well as Family, 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0374135088
• ISBN 13: 9780374135089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1