Nature's housekeeper : an eco-comedy
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Indianapolis, IN : Blue River Press, 2015.
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Nederland Community Library - FICTION
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Published
Indianapolis, IN : Blue River Press, 2015.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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We've all read books that changed our lives but one college professor gets more than he bargains for when he picks up a dusty, dog-eared copy of the American classic Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Proud postmodern consumer and card-carrying member of the "I Hate Nature" Club, Michael Gurnow is content in his role as American literature professor at a Midwest college. Everything changes once he gets done reading Thoreau's masterpiece. Realizing he has been living a life of quiet desperation, it suddenly occurs to him that even though it's his job to teach tales of other people's adventures, he hasn't lived any of his own. Without a second thought, Gurnow hands in his resignation before driving to the nearest state park and applies to be the wilderness equivalent of a construction worker. "How hard can trail maintenance be?" he asks himself. "It's a minimum-wage job." He quickly learns there's a difference between book smarts and common sense. In this mile-a-minute comedy of errors, Gurnow discovers why it's a bad idea to get into a fistfight with a mudslide, horny hornets are a force to be reckoned with, being able to identify poison ivy is a grossly undervalued skill, and you can't outrun deer--even if you're naked. With a tie-dye cast of characters, Gurnow compresses several hard-won years in the wilderness into four side-splitting seasons. With his newly minted critical eye toward consumer culture, he reveals the surprisingly complex world of trail maintenance while taking the reader on a guided, philosophic tour of the nature classics.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gurnow, M. (2015). Nature's housekeeper: an eco-comedy . Blue River Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gurnow, Michael. 2015. Nature's Housekeeper: An Eco-comedy. Blue River Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gurnow, Michael. Nature's Housekeeper: An Eco-comedy Blue River Press, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gurnow, Michael. Nature's Housekeeper: An Eco-comedy Blue River Press, 2015.
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