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Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse


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When best-selling author and urban dweller Michael Korda and his wife, Margaret, decide to buy a once-beautiful 18th century house in upstate New York, they discover the arduous, irresistable, and at times, hilarious, aspects of country living. Along with the house, they acquire "or are acquired by" the elderly caretaker, whose idea of landscaping is "whack it all back;" polite but reticent locals who immediately observe that while Korda seems intelligent, "he don't know shit about septics," and by extension, other vital aspects of rural living. Illustrated with Korda's own drawings, this witty memoir is for all who have ever dreamed of owning that perfect little place in the country -- or who, more boldly, have done it.

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