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<p>FINALIST FOR THE 2001 THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR A "ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS" (DENVER) BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR<p>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&#58; 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.<p>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.</p>

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Author

Mullen, Jim (Jim R.)

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743218795

Category

humor

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.93 / 5 (201 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14