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Ten Thousand Years in the Suburbs
By Jack Zimmerman
At the age of thirty, Zimmerman moved from
Chicago to the suburbs determined to live the gamut of the
suburban experience.
He became a chauffeur for mouthbreathers, maintained
a refrigerator full of microwavable chicken patties, taught
Sunday school, and joined the Lions Club. He practiced lawn
care and aluminum siding restoration. At last he knows the
difference between soffit and fascia.
But Zimmerman's writing transcends the suburban
experience. He is a novelist in search of the novel and a
middle-aged fat guy who has weathered more than one career
change. He survived his son buying his first earring, job
interviews in which he hears voices, and DisneyWorld.
For ten years he has chronicled this life,
two columns a week, in the Elmhurst Press. His writing has
garnered two first place awards from the Illinois Press Association
and free beers from local bartenders.
But he wasn't always as you see him now. In
a Lithuanian neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, he spent
his early years listening to Charlie Parker, reading Down
Beat, and playing trombone in his parents' basement. He heard
a symphony orchestra for the first time when the Chicago Symphony
came to his college in Quincy, Illinois.
When the trumpet of Adolph Herseth floated
above the orchestra, Zimmerman said, "Please, God, I've got
to do this for a living."
He's been broke ever since.
"More sensitive than Dave Barry and just as
funny."
?Booklist
"Read this book?you'll die laughing!"
?Tony Fitzpatrick, Artist and WLUP Chicago talk
radio host
"A literate, caustic voice."
?Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune columnist
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