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Chargement... It Takes a Village Idiot : A Memoir of Life After the Citypar Jim Mullen
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A humorous, easy read about the trials and tribulations of a "flatlander" - someone who moves from elsewhere to live amongst farmers in the Catskills. When I first started, the author seemed somewhat snarky, and thus rather off-putting, but he softened up (or I got used to his style) and I ended up laughing at many of his city versus country stories. Mullen is a very good writer and keeps the story moving along. Pretty light reading, but also pretty funny in places. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Finalist for the 2001 Thurber Prize for American Humor a Rocky Mountain News (Denver) Best Book of the Year Millions of people dream of abandoning the city routine for a simple country life. Jim Mullen was not one of them. He loved his Manhattan existence: parties, openings, movie screenings. He could walk to hundreds of restaurants, waste entire afternoons at the Film Forum, people-watch from his window. Then, one day, calamity. His wife quits smoking and buys a weekend house in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York -- in a tiny town diametrically opposed to Manhattan in every way. Slowly, however, the man who once boasted, "Life is just a cab away," begins to warm to the place -- manure and compost and strangers who wave and all -- and to embrace the kind of life that once gave him the shakes. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)974.738043092History and Geography North America Northeastern U.S. New York Southeast counties Catskill mtsClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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If you live in New York or have lived there, or have visited there much, this book will be even funnier to you. ( )