{"product_id":"country-matters-the-pleasures-and-tribulations-of-moving-from-a-big-city-to-an-old-country-farmhouse-9780060957483","title":"Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Dreaming of moving to the country? First, read Michael Korda's engaging memoir. City types will find laughter, profit, and fair warning in \u003cem\u003eCountry Matters\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e--Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of a city couple's new life in the country.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once entertaining, canny, and moving, \u003cem\u003eCountry Matters\u003c\/em\u003e does for Dutchess County, New York, what \u003cem\u003eUnder the Tuscan Sun\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003eOwning 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.\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSure 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Korda, Success Research Cor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.54h x 5.60w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060957483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/14\/2002 pg. 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKorda, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Korda is the author of \u003cem\u003eUlysses S. Grant\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIke\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHero\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCharmed Lives\u003c\/em\u003e. Educated at Le Rosey in Switzerland and at Magdalen College, Oxford, he served in the Royal Air Force. He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and on its fiftieth anniversary was awarded the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Hungary. He and his wife, Margaret, make their home in Dutchess County, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43110624886899,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":21.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_528b0cc0-6185-4289-839f-9db5c5268f6e.jpg?v=1748982492","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/country-matters-the-pleasures-and-tribulations-of-moving-from-a-big-city-to-an-old-country-farmhouse-9780060957483","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}