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Granted, the plot of this novel is quite thin, but, while not leaving you in stitches, Trillin provokes many smirks and smiles with his wit. For instance, he writes of magazines titled Beautiful Spot: A Magazine of Parking and the potential of Spin: The Magazine of Salad Drying. When Tepper suggests that his friend Jack leave his car's flashers on while parked illegally, Jack responds:
And draw attention to myself? Not a chance. I always park in front of hydrants. The secret is to park smack in front of them rather than just too near them. You have to go all the way. If you're smack in front of them, the cop rolling down the street can't see that there's a hydrant there at all. You have to be brazen. That's my motto, in parking and in life: be brazen.Trillin's book should appeal to commuters and city dwellers everywhere, and anyone else looking for a chuckle. --Michael Ferch
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 isnt 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. Teppers behavior sometimes irritates the people who want his spot. (Is that where you live? Is that car rent-controlled?) It also irritates the mayorFrank Ducavelli, known in tabloid headlines as Il Ducewho 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 dont 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 Isnt Going Out is a wise and witty story of an ordinary man who, perhaps innocently, changes the world around him.BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin. In a delightful bestseller full of the lore of New York, Murray Tepper regularly parks in Manhattan and reads his paper. Not surprisingly, his reading is often interrupted by people who want his spot. But Tepper isn't going out. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780375758515
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