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.
Author: Jim Mullen
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 07/16/2002
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.49w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9780743218795
ISBN10: 0743218795
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Humor | Form | Essays
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.
Author: Jim Mullen
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 07/16/2002
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.49w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9780743218795
ISBN10: 0743218795
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Humor | Form | Essays
About the Author
Jim Mullen writes the "Hot Sheet" column for Entertainment Weekly and has also written for The New York Times, New York magazine, and The Village Voice.