At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life

At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life - Paperback

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At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life - Paperback

At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life - Paperback

by Wade Rouse
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by Wade Rouse (Author)

We all dream about it, but Wade Rouse actually did it. Discover his journey to live the simple life in this hilarious memoir.

Finally fed up with the frenzy of city life and a job he hates, Wade Rouse decided to make either the bravest decision of his life or the worst mistake since his botched Ogilvie home perm: to uproot his life and try, as Thoreau did some 160 years earlier, to "live a plain, simple life in radically reduced conditions."

In this rollicking and hilarious memoir, Wade and his partner, Gary, leave culture, cable, and consumerism behind and strike out for rural Michigan--a place with fewer people than in their former spinning class. There, Wade discovers the simple life isn't so simple. Battling blizzards, bloodthirsty critters, and nosy neighbors equipped with night-vision goggles, Wade and his spirit, sanity, relationship, and Kenneth Cole pointy-toed boots are sorely tested with humorous and humiliating frequency. And though he never does learn where his well water actually comes from or how to survive without Kashi cereal, he does discover some things in the woods outside his knotty-pine cottage in Saugatuck, Michigan, that he always dreamed of but never imagined he'd find-happiness and a home.

At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream is a sidesplitting and heartwarming look at taking a risk, fulfilling a dream, and finding a home-with very thick and very dark curtains.

Author Biography

WADE ROUSE is the critically acclaimed author ofthe memoirs America's Boy, Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler, and At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream and editor of the upcoming humorous dog anthology I'm Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship!He is a humor columnist for Metrosource magazine. Rouse lives outside Saugatuck, Michigan, with his partner, Gary, and their mutts, Marge and Mabel.

Number of Pages: 320
Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: June 01, 2010
ISBN9780307451910
Author Wade Rouse
PublisherCrown Publishing Group (NY)
GenreBiography, Relationships, and Humor & comedy
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2010
LanguageENG- English
Pages320
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Wade Rouse

Wade Rouse is the USA Today and international bestselling author of five memoirs and fifteen novels, including fiction under the pen name Viola Shipman, chosen to honor his grandmother. His works have been translated into nearly thirty languages and selected as Today Show Must-Reads, Indie Next Picks, and Michigan Notable Books. Rouse was a finalist in the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards for Humor and has been featured in the Washington Post, Time, All Things Considered, People, Good Housekeeping, and Parade. He earned a BA from Drury University and a master's in journalism from Northwestern University. He splits his time between Saugatuck, Michigan, and Palm Springs, California, and hosts Wine & Words with Wade: A Literary Happy Hour every Thursday on the Viola Shipman Facebook page. He can be found at waderouse.com and violashipman.com.

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