{"product_id":"it-takes-a-village-idiot-a-memoir-of-life-after-the-city-9780743218795","title":"It Takes a Village Idiot: A Memoir of Life After the City","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jim Mullen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2001 Thurber Prize for American Humor a \u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/i\u003e (Denver) Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45409421688983,"sku":"9780743218795","price":1388.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780743218795.webp?v=1767311394","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/it-takes-a-village-idiot-a-memoir-of-life-after-the-city-9780743218795","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}