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Hogs wild : selected reporting pieces / Ian Frazier.

Van Pelt Library PS3556.R363 A6 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Frazier, Ian, author.
Standardized Title:
Essays. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American essays--21st century.
American essays.
Genre:
Essays.
Physical Description:
375 pages ; 22 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Summary:
"A generous selection of Frazier's most sophisticated and uproarious feature stories"-- Provided by publisher.
"Part muckraker, part adventurer and part raconteur, the author, in a humorous collection of stories, collects his best essays and reportage from the past 10 years that beholds, captures and occasionally reimagines the spirit of the American experience. By the author of Travels in Siberia."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
By the road
Hungry minds
The one that got away
Word
Desert hideaway
Dearly disconnected
Bus ride
Back to the harbor
A lonesome death remembered
Form and fungus
The unsettling legacy of General Shrapnel
Hogs wild
On impact
Any drop to drink
Fish out of water
Passengers
The rap
The march of the Strandbeests
The toll: Sandy and the future
Hidden city
The antidote
The cabaret beat
Blue bloods.
ISBN:
9780374298524
0374298521
OCLC:
918995139

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