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"Irresistible and funny...What's so enchanting is Halpern's infectious sense of wonder."
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Jake Halpern is the author of Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction, and Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales, hailed by Bill Bryson as “a splendid and engaging account of stubbornness in Modern America." Halpern has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, LA Weekly, and many other publications. He is also a commentator and freelance producer for NPR’s All Things Considered. He lives in Connecticut.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0618155481
- ISBN 13 9780618155484
- BindingUnknown Binding
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales
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