It Takes a Village Idiot A Memoir of Life after the City

Name: It Takes a Village Idiot A Memoir of Life after the City
Price: 3.74 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780743218795

ISBN-10: 0743218795

ISBN-13: 9780743218795

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jim Mullen

List price: $16.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $15.75

Marketplace

4 new & used from $3.74

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Finalist for the 2001 Thurber Prize for American Humor aRocky 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 --…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 7/16/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Jim Mullen writes the "Hot Sheet," a topical humor column in "Entertainment Weekly", & has also written for "The New York Times", "New York" magazine, "The Village Voice", & "Vogue".