The Suburban You: Reports from the Home Front by Falanga, Mark May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBroadway Books
ISBN-100767918908
ISBN-139780767918909
eBay Product ID (ePID)30522287
Product Key Features
Book TitleSuburban You : Reports from the Home Front
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicTopic / Marriage & Family, Form / Essays
Publication Year2004
GenreHumor
AuthorMark Falanga
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight14 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-045777
Reviews"The Suburban Youis droll enough to put a smile on the most cynical urban puss. Falanga's voice is winning and companionable and funny and manages to make such chores as painting his children's bathroom ceiling into a prospect more daunting and heroic than painting the Sistine Chapel. It made me very happy to live in a city, but I certainly enjoyed the outing." -Christopher Buckley, author ofNo Way to Treat a First LadyandThank You for Smoking
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal307.74/092
SynopsisYou are about to discover that living in the suburbs is a whole lot funnier than you ever thought possible. For this country's 145,892,494 (give or take) suburbanites, Mark Falanga is an utterly deadpan (and thoroughly entertaining) spokesman. Mark Falanga is a slick urban dweller, at the top of his game professionally, with a gorgeous corporate executive wife and a hip coterie in the coolest neighborhood in the city. But when baby makes three, Mark and his family enter the twilight zone called the suburbs, where public schools are good, many wives stay home, and children ride their tricycles in the driveway. Nothing is the same ever again. With the dry wit of David Sedaris, and Dave Barry's love of the absurd, Falanga details his new, suburban landscape from the point of view of a bewildered but gung-ho everyman. From the complex political pecking order in the neighborhood, with its ultracompetitive block parties and its consuming holiday-card rivalry, to the surprises lurking on every corner-such as the twelve-year-old pyromaniac next door and the suspiciously broad-shouldered "lady" on the commuter train-The Suburban You describes in slyly understated prose the vicissitudes of life in the 'burbs.