Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody - Hardcover

Frazier, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374223106 ISBN 13: 9780374223106

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 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.

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Review:

"Subtle...The unwary reader never knows what Frazier is up to until he's hooked." --"The Boston Globe"
"Wickedly funny...[A] rare combination of humor and empathy...More eloquent in their directness than poetry." --"The New York Times"
"Five extraordinary tales profiling people and events in the coolest, clearest, most wittily perceptive prose you'll find anywhere these days." --"Forbes"

Subtle...The unwary reader never knows what Frazier is up to until he's hooked. "The Boston Globe"

Wickedly funny...[A] rare combination of humor and empathy...More eloquent in their directness than poetry. "The New York Times"

Five extraordinary tales profiling people and events in the coolest, clearest, most wittily perceptive prose you'll find anywhere these days. "Forbes""

"Subtle...The unwary reader never knows what Frazier is up to until he's hooked." --The Boston Globe

"Wickedly funny...[A] rare combination of humor and empathy...More eloquent in their directness than poetry." --The New York Times

"Five extraordinary tales profiling people and events in the coolest, clearest, most wittily perceptive prose you'll find anywhere these days." --Forbes

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 this edition

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