Wade Rouse Signing "At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream"

Start: 08/19/2009 6:00 pm

End: 08/19/2009 8:00 pm

Wednesday, August 19th from 6:00-8:00pm

Please join us for a wine and cheese reception for Wade Rouse. Wade will be speaking from and signing his new book "At Least In The City Someone Can Hear You Scream". Wade has written an hysterical memoir of a city slicker trying to become a country mouse right here in rural Michigan.

"Wade Rouse is a true oddball: half Henry David Thoreau, half Oliver Wendell Douglas. AT LEAST IN THE CITY SOMEONE WOULD HEAR ME SCREAM is a funny, good-natured chronicle of a fish out of water, slowly learning to breathe."
-Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of "Election," "Little Children," and "The Abstinence Teacher"
"In At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream, Wade Rouse's inner Eddie Albert does battle with his inner Eva Gabor. I won't tell you who wins, but the fight is immensely entertaining."
-A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of "The Year of Living Biblically"

At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life (Hardcover)

By Wade Rouse

$23.99

ISBN-13: 9780307451903
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Crown, 6/2009

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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.