Name: Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting Pieces
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Author: Ian Frazier
ISBN: 9781250132154

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Physical Book

Publisher

Picador

Author

Ian Frazier

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781250132154

Synopsis "Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting Pieces "

PART MUCKRAKER, PART ADVENTURER, AND PART RACONTEUR, FRAZIER BEHOLDS, CAPTURES, AND OCCASIONALLY REIMAGINES THE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. HOGS WILD OFFERS US AN UTTERLY UNIQUE BRAND OF INQUIRY WITHOUT AN AGENDA, CURIOSITY WITHOUT CALCULATION."A master of both distilled insight and utter nonsense" (The Believer), Ian Frazier is one of contemporary Americas most gifted chroniclers. While travelling down south to examine feral hogs, he learns that their presence in a county is a strong indication it votes Republican. He introduces us to a man who, when his house is hit by a supposed meteorite, hopes to transform the errant object into an opportunity for his family, and follows a New York City detective fascinated with rap-music-related crimes. Alongside delighting in the absurdities of contemporary life, the collection further exposes our social reality: pieces on soup kitchens, opioid overdose deaths in Staten Island, and the rise of homelessness in New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.To read Frazier is to become a kind of social and political anthropologistastute and deeply engagedwith humor never too far behind.

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