Arbitrary stupid goal / Tamara Shopsin.

Author
Shopsin, Tamara [Browse]
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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    "'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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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780374105860 ((hardcover))
    • 0374105863 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2016059399
    OCLC
    957301918
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