Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos: Best Nonfiction
by Friedman, Bruce Jay
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0226263509
- ISBN 13
- 9780226263502
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About This Item
Chicago: University Of Chicago Press. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 236 pages. A butler school in Houston, a livestock auction in Little Rock, a home for "frozen guys" in California, JFK's humidor in Manhattan—all are jumping off points for Friedman's baleful and sharply satirical scrutiny of American life and behavior in the second half of the twentieth century. Travel with Friedman from Harlem to Hollywood, from Port-au-Prince to Etta's Eat Shop in Chicago. In these pieces, which were published in literary and mass-circulation magazines from the 1960s to the 1990s, you'll meet such luminaries as Castro and Clinton, Natalie Wood and Clint Eastwood, and even Friedman's friends Irwin Shaw, Nelson Algren, and Mario Puzo. Friedman is a master of the essay, whether the subject is crime reporting ("Lessons of the Street"), Hollywood shenanigans ("My Life among the Stars"), or his outrageous adventures as the editor of pulp magazines (the classic "Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos"). We could sing his praises as a journalist, humorist, and social critic. But, as Buckley tells us, being Bruce Jay Friedman is enough. Clean copy. Record # 378372
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos: Best Nonfiction
- Author
- Friedman, Bruce Jay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0226263509
- ISBN 13
- 9780226263502
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- This edition first published
- 2000-10
- Keywords
- Literature, essays, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Pulp magazines
- Magazines published primarily in the 20th Century named for the cheaply produced wood pulp paper on which they were printed....