| Description |
257 pages ; 22 cm |
| 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 were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weirder dads that they are. Other subjects covered include the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison, and advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
The beginning: 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 -- The middle: 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 limits of safe travel -- The end: Yippee |
| Summary |
Presents a memoir of the author's cursed travels through the woods of Massachusetts and coastal Maine, describing his midlife transformation from an idealistic youth to an eccentric family man. |
| Subject |
Hodgman, John.
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Humorists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Television personalities -- United States -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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TRAVEL / United States / Northeast / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Humor.
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| ISBN |
9780735224827 |
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9780735224803 |
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0735224803 |
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