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Loading... Tepper Isn't Going Out: A Novel (original 2001; edition 2002)by Calvin Trillin
Work InformationTepper Isn't Going Out: A Novel by Calvin Trillin (2001)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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? no reviews | add a review
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. No library descriptions found. |
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