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Confessions Of A Counterfeit Farm Girl

by Susan Mccorkindale
Confessions Of A Counterfeit Farm Girl

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ISBN13: 9780451224934
ISBN10: 0451224930
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A laugh-out-loud memoir about a city slicker who discovers that Manolos and manure just don?t mix.

At her husband?s prompting, suburban mom and New York career woman Susan McCorkindale agreed to give up her stressful six-figure job. Together, they headed down south to a 500-acre beef farm, and never looked back. Well, he didn?t look back. She did. A lot.

From playing ?spot the religious billboard? on the drive to rural Virginia, to adapting to a world without Starbucks, to planning bright-orange hunter-resistant wardrobes for the kids (?We moved here to get away from the madness of Manhattan only to risk getting popped on our own property?), this is her hilarious account of how a city girl came to love?or at least tolerate?country life.


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Susan McCorkindale, a former marketing director at Family Circle, is now a freelance advertising copywriter in the wilds of Virginia. But she still loves the New York Giants, Bruce Springsteen, and the Jersey Shore. This is her first book.

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Madam Pince , June 19, 2009 (view all comments by Madam Pince)
While McCorkindale's stories of adjusting to rural Virginia life after leaving suburban New Jersey are generally funny, there's a clear strain of bitterness and more than a whiff of disdain for the residents of Fauquier County and its lack of commerce. This doesn't work for me, a suburban Richmond girl who happily moved to the western-central Virginia boonies (and its lack of commerce) when I fell in love with a wild-eyed country boy. McCorkindale lurks in the shadows of feminine humor masters Laurie Notaro and Celia Rivenbark -- take a page from them, Suzy, and get back to us when you learn something.

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ISBN:
9780451224934
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
10/07/2008
Publisher:
PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE
Pages:
368
Height:
.81IN
Width:
5.26IN
Thickness:
.75
Age Range:
18 and up
Grade Range:
13 and up
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2008
UPC Code:
2800451224936
Author:
Susan McCorkindale
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Virginia
Subject:
Career changes
Subject:
Biography - General
Subject:
Country life
Subject:
New york (n.y.)

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