Great Plains

Ian Frazier author Robert Macfarlane editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Granta Books

Published:6th Feb '06

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Reportage resists easy definition and comes in many forms, but it reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know. This book is a journey from tumbleweed and American Indian tepees to the house where Bonnie and Clyde did their dirty work to the scene of the murders in Capote's In Cold Blood.

Reportage resists easy definition and comes in many forms - travel essay, narrative history, autobiography - but at its finest it reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know. This new series, hailed as 'a wonderful idea' by Don DeLillo, both restores to print and introduces for the first time some of the greatest works of the genre. Great Plains is a journey through the vast and myth-inspiring empty plains - from tumbleweed and American Indian tepees to the house where Bonnie and Clyde did their dirty work to the scene of the murders in Capote's In Cold Blood.

"* 'An incredible writer' Los Angeles Times * 'Frazier is a writer of grace and charm' Washington Post * 'A writer of uncommon grace and subtlety' Chicago Tribune * 'Whether on a paved shore in Harlem or in the middle of Montana, Frazier writes with unpretentious lyricism and comedy' Minneapolis Star-Tribune * 'Frazier is a great storyteller [who] writes history with passion and delight' Newsweek"

ISBN: 9781862078703

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm

Weight: 221g

320 pages