Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody
ISBN10: 0312422857
ISBN13: 9780312422851
Trade Paperback
192 Pages
$19.00
CA$25.99
Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody is Ian Frazier's trenchant collection of early journalism, and in the grand tradition of A. J. Liebling and Joseph Mitchell, Frazier raises reporting 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 Kansas residents who celebrate the centennial of a famous local massacre with outdoor square dancing and a promise that any descendents of their former Cheyenne Indian enemies can go bowling for free.
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Praise for Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody
"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
"Clear and thoughtful—with a fillip of the outlandish. This is the stimulating, ardent writing that one always hopes for and rarely finds."—Houston Chronicle
"Astonishing . . . The reader winds up laughing and knowing a great deal."—Time
"He's one of the funniest, most facile writers working today, and the five long pieces in this new collection prove it."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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NOBODY BETTER, BETTER THAN NOBODY
Authentic Accounts of Massacres
The town of Oberlin, Kansas, is in the northwest corner of the state, eighty-three miles east of the Kansas-Colorado state line and a...