By Ian Frazier. New York: Picador, 2008.
An immensely humourous collection from a brilliant mind.
This book consists of a series of essays as well as other different forms of writing, from diary entries to recipes to court documents, touching on a variety of subjects with satirical mirth. Moreover, from slice of life newspaper column pieces to material about politics and history, the variety of types of humour contained herein is remarkable and much appreciated.
As with any tome like it, not everything in "Lamentations of the Father" is funny. Additionally, the more politically-oriented pieces, written in the George W. Bush era, are obviously dated. Neither of these two things, however, should inhibit someone reading this tome that will delight in many ways.
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