Coyote V. Acme

by Ian Frazier

Book Overview

Twenty-two side-splitting glimpses into some oddball corners of the American mind from bestselling author Ian Frazier. The title essay of Coyote v. Acme, Frazier's second collection of humorous... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374130337
• ISBN13: 9780374130336
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Brilliant, Truly Funny Book

It is disappointing, but not surprising, to see that there are a number of readers who give this book only a star or two. Of course, some people think Charles Dickens is "dull", while others don't "get" James Thurber. Fortunately, many more do, and Frazier is definitely in a league with Thurber and other great humorists. He is simply one of the best writers alive, and easily the funniest. If you appreciate true wit and absurd, hilarious writing at all you should buy this book. Those you who don't like it probably have a sense of humor that reaches the level of most TV commercials, if that. One can only feel sorry for you - you're missing a great writer!

Dangerously funny

Mr. Frazier may be hearing from my attorneys soon, as I may have ruptured something laughing at the title story. That alone would be worth the price of the book, but the rest of it, while not always gut-wrenchingly hilarious, should not be read in a hospital corridor.