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050	0	0	_aPS3570.R5 _bT4 2001
082	1		_aFIC TRI _2
100	1		_aTrillin, Calvin
245	1	0	_aTepper isn't going out _b: a novel _c/ Calvin Trillin
250			_a1st edition
260			_aNew York _b: Random House _c, c2001
300			_a213 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aMurray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is going out. Tepper isn't going out. Why not? His explanations tend to be rather literal: the indisputable fact, for instance, that he has twenty minutes left on the meter. Tepper's behavior sometimes irritates the people who want his spot. (Is that where you live? Is that car rent-controlled?) It also irritates the mayor Frank Ducavelli, known in tabloid headlines as Il Duce who sees Murray Tepper as a harbinger of what His Honor always calls the forces of disorder. But once New Yorkers become aware of Tepper, some of them begin to suspect that he knows something they don't know. And an ever-increasing number of them are willing to line up for the opportunity to sit in his car with him and find out. Tepper isn't Going Out is a wise and witty story of an ordinary man who, perhaps innocently, changes the world around him.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aEccentrics and eccentricities _x-Fiction
650		4	_aAutomobile parking _v--Fiction
650		4	_aCelebrities _x-Fiction
650		4	_aTime travel _x-Fiction
655		4	_aHumorous fiction
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