{"product_id":"it-takes-a-village-idiot-jim-mullen-9780743218795","title":"It Takes a Village Idiot: A Memoir of Life After the City","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jim Mullen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0743218795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743218795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.53h x 5.49w x 0.55d","brand":"Jim Mullen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054786703615,"sku":"9780743218795","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_85fe5ea1-00bd-4064-a86d-ac1f9d91f4dc.jpg?v=1685031987","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/it-takes-a-village-idiot-jim-mullen-9780743218795","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}