Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos: Best Nonfiction

by Bruce Jay Friedman

A 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226263509
• ISBN13: 9780226263502
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Celebrates the literary achievements of author Friedman

Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos celebrates the literary achievements of author Friedman, who is known for his novels and screenplays and whose journalistic insight into contemporary life makes for an excellent series of literary essays. These works appeared in literary and mass-circulation magazines over the last four decades and provide fine, pointed observations of modern life.