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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226263509

ISBN-139780226263502

eBay Product ID (ePID)1782575

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Book TitleEven the Rhinos Were Nymphos : Best Nonfiction

Number of Pages237 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicGeneral, Form / Essays

IllustratorYes

GenreHumor

AuthorBruce Jay Friedman

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight17.4 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-029896

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal814/.54

Table Of ContentIntroduction Some Notes on the Contents Part One: The Literary Life "Don't Dare Put Me in Your Play!" (or Story, Novel, Etc.) Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos Algren and Shaw Tales from the Darkside Don of a New Age Part Two: Celebrities and Others Some Thoughts on Clint Eastwood and Heidegger The Imposing Proportions of Jean Shrimpton To Cigars, with Love and Devotion Yank Paparazzo Frozen Guys Requiem for a Heavy School for Butlers A Champion for Bismarck Part Three: Lessons of the Street Charge: Murder Lessons of the Street Who's Watching the Border? Tom Noguchi Part Four: Elsewhere My Life among the Stars My Jerusalem Dark Watercolors from Port-au-Prince Tokyo Prague--the Gray Enchantress Little Rock Acknowledgments

SynopsisA few years ago, Christopher Buckley wrote of Bruce Jay Friedman in the New York Times Book Review that he "has been likened to everyone from J. D. Salinger to Woody Allen," but that "he is: Bruce Jay Friedman, sui generis, and no mean thing. No further comparisons are necessary." We are happy to report that he remains the same Bruce Jay Friedman in his unique, unblinking, and slightly tilted essays--collected here for the first time--in Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos . 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. Bruce Jay Friedman is the author of seven novels (including The Dick , Stern , and A Mother's Kisses ), four collections of short stories, four full-length plays (including Scuba Duba and Steambath ), and the screenplays for the movies Splash and Stir Crazy .

LC Classification NumberPS3556.R5E94 2000