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Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is going out.
Tepper isn't going out. Why not? His explanations tend to be rather literal—the indisputable fact, for instance, that he has twenty minutes left on the meter.
But once New Yorkers become aware of Tepper, some of them begin to suspect that he knows something they don't. And an ever-increasing number of them are willing to line up for the opportunity to sit in his car with him and find out what it is.
Tepper Isn't Going Out is a wise and witty story of an ordinary man who, perhaps innocently, changes the world around him.
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Nathan Butterfield
reviewed Tepper Isn't Going Out on May 08, 2012 Tepper Isn't Going Out
OK, I don't actually think this is a five star book, I think it is a strong 4 star book and I'm giving it an extra half-star because I was so pleasantly surprised. And then I rounded up. I feel I'm completely within my rights to do so, and I hope you're not getting worked up about the effect this has on the overall integrity of the GoodReads scores.
I mean, there's always something.
If you know Calvin Trillin's essays the only surprise is that he does pretty well at fiction. If you know his fiction as well as his essays perhaps there are no surprises, but that's for someone else to say.
If you don't know Calvin Trillin this is probably a good place to start, it captures his humor and pacing to a tee. The love of New York, willingness to talk about parking, ethnic food spots are here, along with not-quite-judgmental observations about human silliness. Maybe I would have expected some more prominent discussion of a good place to get bagels in New York, but over all I think the themes are distributed in fairly Trillinesque proportions.
The book's not very long, so if you want to know the plot you should probably just read the book. I'd suggest keeping a copy in your car, you can perhaps read a few pages here-and-there. If you have time left on the meter, of course.
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