The Quality Of Life Report

Meghan Daum

ISBN 10: 0670032131 / ISBN 13: 9780670032136

Verlag: Viking, 2003

Former library book. Mylar protector included. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 123598070

Inhaltsangabe:

In The Quality of Life Report, Daum picks up on a timely theme and embodies it to perfection in the persona of Lucinda Trout.

Jaded by a life of eating from plastic containers, dodging the feng shui in her boss's office, and reporting on thong underwear as a lifestyle correspondent for New York morning television, the thirtyish Trout is ripe for escape. So when the rent on her tiny mouse-ridden apartment doubles overnight, she heads for Prairie City, USA, to feed her own and every New Yorker's heartland fantasy in dispatches tagged "The Quality of Life Report." "Real life" is what Lucinda's after-and, if possible, a man who knows how to wield a hammer. Fantasy becomes reality (in Prairie City, deviled eggs are a delicacy and fake nails are de rigueur); but reality has surprises up its sleeve. It takes Lucinda through an epiphany and an unlikely romance in a tale that is redemptive, wickedly witty, and heartbreaking all at once.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Meghan Daum, author of the essay collection My Misspent Youth, has contributed to numerous publications that include The New Yorker, Harper's, Vanity Fair, Vogue, O, GQ, and Glamour, as well as to National Public Radio's Morning Edition and This American Life. She was also, for three years, a columnist for Self.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Quality Of Life Report
Verlag: Viking
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good
Art des Buches: Ex-Library