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| Author/Contributor(s): | Trillin, Calvin |
| Publisher: | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
| Date: | 1/14/2003 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying toread the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parkedcar, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Notsurprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is goingout.
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 whereyou 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 whatHis Honor always calls “the forces of disorder.”
But once New Yorkers become awareof Tepper, some of them begin to suspect that he knows something they don’t an ever-increasing number of them are willing to line up for the opportunityto sit in his car with him and find out.
Tepper Isn’t Going Out is a wise and wittystory 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.
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