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Zusatztext Jonathan Yardley The Washington Post Book World Mullen is even funnier here [than in his Entertainment Weekly column]. Informationen zum Autor Jim Mullen Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.
