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Bezig met laden... Tepper Isn't Going Out: A Novel (2001)door Calvin Trillin
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Smartly and deftly written, I rather enjoyed it. ( ) When it comes to movies, there's a certain kind of movie that my partner and I say is really great on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Usually not an Oscar winner, often not even widely known but one that brings a smile to your face and makes you glad you spent the time to relax and enjoy it. This book is the literary equivalent. "Comfortable" to read and brought a smile to my face. Fieldnotes: New York City, 1990s 1 Somewhat Eccentric Everyman 1 Dying Mailing List Advertising Business Several (Legal) Parking Spots - Mostly Metered 1 Newspaper Column, which spirals into General Advice-Seeking Hullabaloo 1 Order-Obsessed Mayor 1 Hapless Pollster 1 "Quirky" Mayoral Has-Been and Seeks-to-be-Again 1 Obscure City Ordinance, trotted out for Several Citations, and Escalating Court Cases 1 Twist Ending? geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is going out. Tepper isn’t going out. Why not? His explanations tend to be rather literal: the indisputable fact, for instance, that he has twenty minutes left on the meter. Tepper’s behavior sometimes irritates the people who want his spot. (“Is that where you live? Is that car rent-controlled?”) It also irritates the mayor—Frank Ducavelli, known in tabloid headlines as Il Duce—who sees Murray Tepper as a harbinger of what His Honor always calls “the forces of disorder.” But once New Yorkers become aware of Tepper, some of them begin to suspect that he knows something they don’t know. And an ever-increasing number of them are willing to line up for the opportunity to sit in his car with him and find out. Tepper Isn’t Going Out is a wise and witty story of an ordinary man who, perhaps innocently, changes the world around him. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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