Family

by Ian Frazier
Family  
published February 9th 2002 by Picador
binding Paperback
isbn 0312420595   (isbn13: 9780312420598)
pages 400
description Using letters and other family documents, Frazier reconstructs two hundred years of middle-class life, visiting small towns his ancestors lived in, re...more
date added
03-06-07



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John
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03/06/08

Read in January, 2002
frazier's gifts as a writer shine in this climb through his family tree. deadpan, folksy, soulful, urbane, frazier captures the complexities of his family's unique history within the context of our country's history. lots of real people and their small eccentricities. ON THE REZ is another great Frazier book.
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Marianne
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02/14/08

I thought reading about somebody else's family tree would be a bit self-indulgent, but this is a great book, interweaving history with the personal.

The Civil War stuff drags a bit, but overall I loved this book. Chapter 17 is wonderful - a potted social history of the US.
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Shannon
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08/22/07

Oh, Ian Frazier, how I love thee.
Sure, you run on about the Civil War a little too long. But nobody's perfect.
And those passages about suburbia and your grandmother's suicide and Midwestern protestantism are so good that they knock the wind right out of me.
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Sam
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08/17/08

Read in August, 2008
recommends it for: Devon Balfour
It's kind of ridiculously self-indulgent that Frazier intertwines America's history with that of his family but he gets away with it by separating the "big statements" from the genealogy.

Total Americanist porn.
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avg rating (all editions): 3.88 (34 ratings)
avg rating (this edition): 3.90 (31 ratings)
number of reviews: 4






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