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In this deeply funny memoir, David Rakoff examines his own life and the realities of our sunny, gosh-everyone-can-be-a-star contemporary culture.
In this deeply smart and sneakily poignant collection of essays, the bestselling author of Fraud and Don't Get Too Comfortable makes an inspired case for..
The Uncollected David Rakoff: Including the entire text of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
I've long been a fan of Rakoff and have read several of his books, so I jumped at the chance to read his uncollected materials (this volume also includes the standalone Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish which I've reviewed separately.
If this is your first experience with Rakoff, do yourself a favor and read one of his outstanding essay collections first, Fraud is probably my favorite. Since these are "uncollected" works, they, understandably, don't hang together in the same way his curated (if that's the right word) collections do - there's some definite unevenness and some I could have skipped altogether (like the investigation of the book Bambi and its author).
However, if you are a Rakoff completist you'll be thrilled this book exists and will likely find some unread gems here, on things like the Rat Pack (in the
