Author

Publication

2003 - Viking, New York, NY

Language

English

Word Count

77,250 words, Guess

Page Count

309 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100670032131
  • ISBN-139780670032136
  • Goodreads1063539
  • LibraryThing4938
  • Open LibraryOL22531854M

Classifications

  • LCCPS/PZ

Description

Meghan Daum's unforgettable debut novel brings her sharp wit and courageous social commentary to the story of Lucinda Trout, a New York television reporter in search of greener pastures. Moving to the slower- paced, friendly, and vastly more affordable Midwestern town of Prairie City, Lucinda zealously creates a series of televised reports for her New York audience about her newfound quality of life. But when Lucinda falls for eccentric local Mason Clay, her naïveté about the real world leads her down an unexpected path, where she encounters, among other things, a drafty old farmhouse filled with children, an ever-growing menagerie of farm animals, and the harshest winter the region has seen in twenty years. In other words, simplicity just isn't as simple as it is cracked up to be, and "quality of life," Lucinda learns, is much more complicated than she ever imagined.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The quality of life report: [a novel]Viking2003-01-01

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