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Seller: Merandja Books, Cornwall, United KingdomMerandja Books
AbeBooks seller since October 3, 2001
Condition: Used - Good
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A First Edition book with both book and jacket in good condition, book is dated 1987. Jacket is protected by a loose-fitting, clear, sellophane wrapper.
Seller Inventory # 019406
- Title
- Dating Your Mom
- Author
- Frazier, Ian
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton, London
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241119995
- ISBN 13
- 9780241119990
- Edition
- First Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Modern First Editions, Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology
From the opening essay, "The Bloomsbury Group Live at the Apollo (Liner Notes from the New Best-Selling Album)" to the title piece that discusses ways in which you might begin a romance with your mother ("In today's fast-moving, transient, rootless society, where people meet and make love and part without ever really touching, the relationship every guy already has with his own mother is too valuable to ignore...") to a parody that features Samuel Beckett as a pilot giving an existential in-flight speech to the passengers, the twenty-five comic essays in this delightful collection are nothing short of brilliant. Ian Frazier, long considered one of our most treasured humorists, proves that comedy can be just as smart as it is entertaining.
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Review
" 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
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Merandja Books
Cornwall, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since October 3, 2001
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