Vacationland

True Stories from Painful Beaches

Paperback, 257 pages

English language

Published March 1, 2018 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7352-2482-7
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OCLC Number:
1159405831

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4 stars (1 review)

Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them.

Vacationland collects these real life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god.

Though wildly, Hodgmaniacally funny as usual, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties, those …

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Subjects

  • Authors, biography
  • Humor, form, essays
  • American wit and humor, travel