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THE QUALITY OF LIFE REPORT
By: Meghan Daum
Penguin
June 2004
On Sale: May 25, 2004
336 pages
ISBN: 014200443X
EAN: 9780142004432
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Meghan Daumβs unforgettable debut novel brings her sharp wit and courageous social commentary to the story of Lucinda Trout, a New York television reporter in search of greener pastures. Moving to the slower- paced, friendly, and vastly more affordable Midwestern town of Prairie City, Lucinda zealously creates a series of televised reports for her New York audience about her newfound quality of life. But when Lucinda falls for eccentric local Mason Clay, her naΓ―vetΓ© about the real world leads her down an unexpected path, where she encounters, among other things, a drafty old farmhouse filled with children, an ever-growing menagerie of farm animals, and the harshest winter the region has seen in twenty years. In other words, simplicity just isnβt as simple as it is cracked up to be, and "quality of life," Lucinda learns, is much more complicated than she ever imagined.
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