Screen LibraryVacationland : true stories from painful beaches /
"John Hodgman--New York Times bestselling author, semi-famous personality, deranged millionaire, increasingly elderly husband, father, and human of earth--has written a memoir about his cursed travels through two wildernesses: from the woods of his home of Massachusetts, birthplace of rage, to...
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Viking,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"John Hodgman--New York Times bestselling author, semi-famous personality, deranged millionaire, increasingly elderly husband, father, and human of earth--has written a memoir about his cursed travels through two wildernesses: from the woods of his home of Massachusetts, birthplace of rage, to his exile on the coast of Maine, so-called 'Vacationland,' home to the most painful beaches on earth. Vacationland is also about John's wandering in the metaphoric wilderness of his forties, those years when dudes especially must painfully stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they wer |
| Carrier Form: | 257 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780735224803 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0735224803 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | PS3608 |
| CLC: | K837.125.6 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.6/H689-1 |
| Contents: | The bookkeeper for the Church of Satan -- Dump jail -- Mongering -- 309.28 -- Rocks on top of other rocks -- Pills are science -- Daddy Pitchfork -- Nerve food -- Graveyard fun -- Maine humor -- A kingdom property -- The IT guy for Duck Dynasty -- So thin is the skin of my people -- You are normal people -- Vacationland -- A little beyond the safe limits of travel -- Yippee. |