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Arbitrary stupid goal / Tamara Shopsin.
Author
Shopsin, Tamara
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : MCD/Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2017.
©2017
Description
324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
F128.68.G8 S56 2017
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Subject(s)
Restaurants
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New York (State)
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New York
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Family-owned business enterprises
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New York (State)
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New York
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Bohemianism
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New York (State)
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New York
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Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)
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Biography
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New York (N.Y.)
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Biography
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Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)
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Social life and customs
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New York (N.Y.)
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Social life and customs
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Shopsin, Tamara
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Childhood and youth
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Shopsin, Tamara
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Family
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Biographies
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collective biographies
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Summary note
"'Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world--when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life'--Miranda July; In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, long before Sex and the City tours and luxury condos. The center of Tamara's universe is Shopsin's, her family's legendary greasy spoon, aka 'The Store, ' run by her inimitable dad, Kenny--a loquacious, contrary, huge-hearted man who, aside from dishing up New York's best egg salad on rye, is Village sheriff, philosopher, and fixer all at once. All comers find a place at Shopsin's table and feast on Kenny's tall tales and trenchant advice along with the incomparable chili con carne. Filled with clever illustrations and witty, nostalgic photographs and graphics, and told in a sly, elliptical narrative that is both hilarious and endearing, Arbitrary Stupid Goal is an offbeat memory-book mosaic about the secrets of living an unconventional life, which is becoming a forgotten art "--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
A Symphony
Wide World
Wolfs Lair
A Seven-Day Pillbox
Hole 18
Things
My Jewels
Gateway Drug
A Gift
Whoop Whoop
Laydee
Order of the Universe
The Small Pond
The Top Floor
Buckets of Gravy
Raw chicken Chunks
Bullet-Proof Case
Shangri-La
The ASG.
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ISBN
9780374105860 ((hardcover))
0374105863 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2016059399
OCLC
957301918
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