Tepper Isn't Going Out (Abridged)

by Calvin Trillin Narrated by Calvin Trillin

Overview

Murray 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.

Editorial Reviews

DEC 02/JAN 03 - AudioFile

Since Calvin Trillin has been referred to by THE NEW YORK TIMES as “the Buster Keaton of performance humorists,” it’s not surprising that his reading of his newest novel at first comes across as flat and uninteresting to the uninitiated. But as his story of a New York man who enjoys reading the paper behind the wheel of his parked car develops, Trillin’s voice grows on the listener. The story is a magically witty farce about Murray Tepper, who won’t leave his parking spot until his meter expires and who becomes the center of a legal and political battle. Tepper isn’t going out of his spot, and if you listen to this story in your car, neither will you. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

DEC 02/JAN 03 - AudioFile

Since Calvin Trillin has been referred to by THE NEW YORK TIMES as “the Buster Keaton of performance humorists,” it’s not surprising that his reading of his newest novel at first comes across as flat and uninteresting to the uninitiated. But as his story of a New York man who enjoys reading the paper behind the wheel of his parked car develops, Trillin’s voice grows on the listener. The story is a magically witty farce about Murray Tepper, who won’t leave his parking spot until his meter expires and who becomes the center of a legal and political battle. Tepper isn’t going out of his spot, and if you listen to this story in your car, neither will you. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169089486
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	01/15/2002
Edition description:	Abridged

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