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product_id: 6415706
title: "Fraud"
brand: "david rakoff"
price: "R416"
currency: ZAR
in_stock: false
reviews_count: 12
url: https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/6415706-fraud
store_origin: ZA
region: South Africa
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# Fraud

**Brand:** david rakoff
**Price:** R416
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

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- **What is this?** Fraud by david rakoff
- **How much does it cost?** R416 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
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- david rakoff enthusiasts

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## Customer Reviews

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    Abundant potential, lack of national awareness.
  

*by A***T on Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2001*

Your average New Yorker may find this to be one of the funniest books ever written, seriously.  Unfortunately no-one bothered to translate this book for the rest of the country.  In this book, it is typical that David spends two paragraphs building up a scene, or a moment within the scene, to end it with a reference to some New Yorker, past or present, as some sort of punchline.  Rakoff never bothers to explain, even for an instant, who in the hell these people are.  For example, when someone is asked to move a tent pole a few inches because it was in the way of a lane that had been planned, Rakoff starts in like a professional comedian-- finding the humor in the monotonous.  He starts in dryly expanding the idea of planning a path where people will walk into someone's vision of a vast tent city and ends it by comparing the person who planned the lane with Robert Moses.  Quite funny if you know that Robert Moses was NY City's most powerful City Planner, and some of his history.  Moses is probably the most mainstream of Rakoff's name-dropping punchlines.  Others, I assume, revolve around NY's art, lit., and political scenes.  Most of this could have been solved by simply adding titles to the names, like saying "former NY City City Planner Robert Moses" rather than just "Robert Moses."If you're a New Yorker, or well versed in New York culture, this book was literally written for you.  For the rest of us, the book contains a lot of non-namedropping moments of sheer brilliance, but you have to be willing to drudge through all those worthless names to see it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good service, swift delivery  !!
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2022*

I'm happy with the product and the swift delivery.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great read
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2014*

I always enjoyed Rakoff on NPR, but took my time getting to his writing. That was a mistake, as he is an essayist with a distinctive style and voice. I have bought three collections now, and am only disappointed there cannot be more. An interesting, thoughtful voice stilled too early, he stands with David Sedaris  and Sarah Vowell. I would urge everyone to try at least one of his collections.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-21*