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作       者:Korda, Michael

出  版  社:HarperCollins e-books

出版时间:2009-03-01

字       数:50.1万

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With his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of a city couple's new life in the country.At once entertaining, canny, and moving, Country Matters does for Dutchess County, New York, what Under the Tuscan Sun did for Tuscany. This witty memoir, replete with Korda's own line drawings, reads like a novel, as it chronicles the author's transformation from city slicker to full-time country gentleman, complete with tractors, horses, and a leaking roof.When he decides to take up residence in an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Dutchess County, ninety miles north of New York City, Korda discovers what country life is really like: Owning pigs, more than owning horses, even more than owning the actual house, firmly anchored the Kordas as residents in the eyes of their Pleasant Valley neighbors. You may own your land, but without concertina barbed wire, or the 82nd Airborne on patrol, it's impossible to keep people off it! It's possible to line up major household repairs over a tuna melt sandwich. And everyone in the area is fully aware that Michael "don't know shit about septics." The locals are not particularly quick to accept these outsiders, and the couple's earliest interactions with their new neighbors provide constant entertainment, particularly when the Kordas discover that hunting season is a year-round event -- right on their own land! From their closest neighbors, mostly dairy farmers, to their unforgettable caretaker Harold Roe -- whose motto regarding the local flora is "Whack it all back! " -- the residents of Pleasant Valley eventually come to realize that the Kordas are more than mere weekenders.Sure to have readers in stitches, this is a book that has universal appeal for all who have ever dreamed of owning that perfect little place to escape to up in the country, or, more boldly, have done it.
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Dedication

Dedication

Epigraph

Epigraph

Contents

Contents

Map

Map

Chapter One

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Ninteen

Chapter Ninteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Five

The Six "Golden Rules" of Owning an Old House

The Six "Golden Rules" of Owning an Old House

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Books by Michael Korda

Books by Michael Korda

Credits

Credits

Copyright

Copyright

About the Publisher

About the Publisher

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