The Driveway Diaries (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780990442851)

When my family moved out from Burlington, Vermont, to a dirt road in rural Essex Center, our life immediately began to suffer the series of challenges and small disasters that quickly sort out the clueless city guy from the true Vermonter. This collection of stories is mainly about those challenges, almost all of which I failed - and about the most important, most evil challenge of all: our driveway. A gravel driveway, especially a steep one, is an umbilicus between home and the outside world, an index of change that can wash out or burst into flower overnight, and the cause of more sweat and backache than all the rest of the property combined. In many ways, this book celebrates the glories of the countryside; in many ways it is appalled. If Thoreau had read this book, he would never have made the mistake of moving to Walden Pond - or at least he'd have made damn sure not to have a driveway.

Author: Tim Brookes
ISBN-10: 0990442853
ISBN-13: 9780990442851
Publisher: Endangered Alphabets Project
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2015
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 7.01h x 5.00w x 0.50d