With self-deprecating humor, a pop culture columnist from Manhattan describes how he chucked the city routine and, dragged kicking and screaming by his had-it-with-the-city wife, leads a simple country life in a tiny Catskill Mountain town--where he couldn't have been more miserable, but the residents couldn't be happier. Illustrations.
FINALIST FOR THE 2001 THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMORA "ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS" (DENVER) BEST BOOK OF THE YEARMillions 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.
Product Details
IT TAKES A VILLAGE IDIOT
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Product Weight: 0.63 lbs
Author: Mullen, Jim
Publication Date: 2002-07-16
Language: English
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Dewey Decimal Classification: B
Number of Units in Package: 1
ISBN: 9780743218795
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