Anybody Who Owns His Own Home Deserves It
$ 5.00
Author: Alan King
Publisher: Avon S186
Year: 1966 Print: 3 Cover Price: $.60
Condition: Book Grades. Good Plus. Moderate wear
Genre: Fiction/Humor
Pages: 126
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The book is a funny, exaggerated retelling of Alan King's popular stand-up comedy routines from The Ed Sullivan Show. It takes a playful look at the joys, stresses, and total chaos of moving out of the city to own a home in the American suburbs.
Key themes and stories in the book include:
- The Reality of Homeownership: King jokes that anyone brave enough to deal with the endless chores, high costs, and constant repairs of owning a house truly "deserves" whatever headaches come with it.
- Suburban Nightmare Scenarios: He shares hilarious, real-life struggles, like discovering that a town border line ran right through the middle of his house. Because of this line, he had an address in one town, but his kids were forced to attend school in a different town. School officials even jokingly told him that his kids could only change schools if they slept in his garage!
- Exaggerated Real Life: While based on his true experiences living on Long Island, New York, the stories are blown up for big comedic effect to poke fun at 1960s neighborhood culture.
