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At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream
Wade Rouse
Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life
Harmony
June 2009
On Sale: June 2, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0307451909
EAN: 9780307451903
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
We all dream it.
Wade Rouse actually did it. 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.
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