
With wit and an unerring eye for detail, acclaimed author Ian Frazier takes readers on a journey through his family's story, his nation's history, and himselfUsing letters and other family documents, Frazier reconstructs two hundred years of middle-class life, visiting small towns his ancestors lived in, reading books they read, and discovering the larger forces of history that affected them. He o...
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Picador; First edition (February 9, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312420595
ISBN-13: 978-0312420598
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 523148
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Frazier is surely one of the greatest writers of nonfiction in America today. How wonderfully he clothes the skeleton of the family tree. How wonderful his originality and his lack of trite expressions.But how unprepared I was for Chapter 18! The int...
e of them during the British raid on Danbury, Connecticut, in the Revolutionary War; he follows others west as they pioneer in the wilderness of Ohio and Indiana; he visits the battlefields where they fought the Civil War. Frazier interviews old-timers, uncles, aunts, cousins, maids, and a beer-store owner who knew his dad. He pursues the family saga in aspect from trivial to grand, hoping for "a meaning that would defeat death."Family is a poetic epic of facts, a chronicle of Protestant culture's rise and fall, a memorial, and a revised view of American history as romantic as it is cold-eyed.“Mr. Frazier, in this remarkable history of an unremarkable family, plays both roles, the gossip and the pedant, balances skillfully, then adds his own insights as a loyal family member.” ―David Willis McCullough, The New York Times Book Review