The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory, not a stock photo!. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey. The text is clean, the binding is tight and square. About the author (2001) Ian Frazier is the author of Great Plains, The Fish's Eye, On the Rez, Family, and Travels in Siberia, as well as Dating Your Mom, Lamentations of the Father, and The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days. This is not a library discard, not a remainder copy. He talks to Native Americans, Park Service employees, kids, adults, ranchers, all kinds of people, and places. Frazier visits a variety of places on the Great Plains of the United States the site of Sitting Bull's cabin in South Dakota, a rock shop made of fossilized bones, a house where Bonnie and Clyde terrorized the occupants in 1933. Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bulls cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capotes In Cold Blood. Some dots of age foxing to the edges of the text block, primarily to the top edge - see the attached photos for more details on the condition. Most travelers only fly over the Great Plainsbut Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped, there is sun fading to the inside of the front flap - about a 1/4" band from top to bottom of the flap from shelving on a sunny shelf. Hardcover first edition, published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989.
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