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Country Matters
de Korda, Michael
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060197722
- ISBN 13
- 9780060197728
- Librería
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Concord, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
HarperCollins 2001. Fine/Very Good. Illus By Author. Small quarto, hardcover, fine in near fine beige pictorial dj. Giftable. The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farm House. In this delightful memoir, hilarious, canny and moving, you will witness Korda's transformation from city slicker to full time resident of Dutchess County and what country life is really like, from fried bologna sandwiches to the ups and downs of owning pigs, horses and--don't know *** about septics". You will laugh out loud about this little escape to the country.
Sinopsis
With his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of a city couple's new life in the country.At once entertaining, canny, and moving, Country Matters does for Dutchess County, New York, what Under the Tuscan Sun did for Tuscany. This witty memoir, replete with Korda's own line drawings, reads like a novel, as it chronicles the author's transformation from city slicker to full-time country gentleman, complete with tractors, horses, and a leaking roof.When he decides to take up residence in an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Dutchess County, ninety miles north of New York City, Korda discovers what country life is really like:Owning pigs, more than owning horses, even more than owning the actual house, firmly anchored the Kordas as residents in the eyes of their Pleasant Valley neighbors. You may own your land, but without concertina barbed wire, or the 82nd Airborne on patrol, it's impossible to keep people off it! It's possible to line up major household repairs over a tuna melt sandwich. And everyone in the area is fully aware that Michael "don't know shit about septics."The locals are not particularly quick to accept these outsiders, and the couple's earliest interactions with their new neighbors provide constant entertainment, particularly when the Kordas discover that hunting season is a year-round event -- right on their own land! From their closest neighbors, mostly dairy farmers, to their unforgettable caretaker Harold Roe -- whose motto regarding the local flora is "Whack it all back! " -- the residents of Pleasant Valley eventually come to realize that the Kordas are more than mere weekenders.Sure to have readers in stitches, this is a book that has universal appeal for all who have ever dreamed of owning that perfect little place to escape to up in the country, or, more boldly, have done it.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 44557
- Título
- Country Matters
- Autor
- Korda, Michael
- Ilustrador
- Illus By Author
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0060197722
- ISBN 13
- 9780060197728
- Editorial
- HarperCollins 2001
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2001
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