Tepper Isn't Going Out

Trillin, Calvin

ISBN 10: 0375506764 / ISBN 13: 9780375506765

Published by Random, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tepper Isn't Going Out
• Publisher: Random
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375506764
• ISBN 13: 9780375506765
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 1 ounce
• Signed: signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Classics

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Calvin Trillin, a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, was also the co-editor (with Gerald Jonas) of a one-issue publication called Beautiful Spot: A Magazine of Parking. He lives in Manhattan, and now keeps his car in a garage.