It Takes a Village Idiot: A Memoir of Life After the City

It Takes a Village Idiot: A Memoir of Life After the City
ISBN-10
0743218795
ISBN-13
9780743218795
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2002-07-16
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Author
Jim Mullen

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.

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