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Acres and Pains

Acres and Pains

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If you can spare the time to drive sixty miles into the backwoods of eastern Pennsylvania, crouch down in a bed of poison ivy, and peer through the sumacs, you will be rewarded by an interesting sight. What you will see is a middle-aged city dweller, as lean and bronzed as a shad's belly (I keep a shad's belly hanging up in the barn for purposes of comparison), gnawing his fingernails and wondering how to abandon a farm. Thus begins Acres and Pains, S.J. Perelman's unique testament to the joys and tribulations of country living. Acres and Pains describes the purchase and transformation of the Perelman property, Rising Gorge, as our hero transforms himself from city lazybones to country squire. Eudora Welty called S.J. Perelman "a National Treasure."
ASIN: 1580800165
VSKU: BVV.1580800165.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Perelman, Simon J.|Blaustein, Hank
Binding: Paperback

ISBN:

BVV.1580800165.G

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