Stuff
Product Details
Simon & Schuster, July 2002
Trade Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN-10: 0743218795
ISBN-13: 9780743218795
Description
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.
The Dallas Morning News
Whether you spend your summer sipping lemonade on a porch swing or gripping a cuppa Joe on the subway, take this book along....Lighthearted and poignant.
Scott C. Yates
Rocky Mountain News (Denver)
A terrific blend of self-deprecating humor and trenchant observations about the funny side of life on both sides of the great urban-rural divide. Fans of Steve Martin or Dave Barry will love it.
Jonathan Yardley
The Washington Post Book World
Mullen is even funnier here [than in his Entertainment Weekly column].
Jonathan YardleyThe Washington Post Book WorldMullen is even funnier here [than in his Entertainment Weekly column].
Auntie Ellenan elderly neighborNew Year's resolutions and pet hamsters only last a month.
Fran Wilsonactivist shopperIt's not very long, and as we all know, brevity is the soul of shortness.
S. DanaherVictor McLaglen look-alikeThe kind of people who would like this book would enjoy A Green Acres Chainsaw Massacre.
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