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The Quality of Life Report Paperback - 2004

by Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum's unforgettable debut novel brings her sharp wit and courageous social commentary to the story of Lucinda Trout, a New York television reporter in search of greener pastures. Moving to the slower- paced, friendly, and vastly more affordable Midwestern town of Prairie City, Lucinda zealously creates a series of televised reports for her New York audience about her newfound quality of life. But when Lucinda falls for eccentric local Mason Clay, her naïveté about the real world leads her down an unexpected path, where she encounters, among other things, a drafty old farmhouse filled with children, an ever-growing menagerie of farm animals, and the harshest winter the region has seen in twenty years. In other words, simplicity just isn't as simple as it is cracked up to be, and 'quality of life,' Lucinda learns, is much more complicated than she ever imagined.


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  • Title The Quality of Life Report
  • Author Meghan Daum
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 336
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2004-05-25
  • ISBN 9780142004432

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[A] funny, literate... entertaining, and often touching story of a single woman lurching into her thirties. (People)Reads like The Bridges of Madison County etched in acid... The simple life never looked so complicated. (Time)Daum's enormous comic gift and her ability to use it in the service of fundamentally serious issues is an unexpected delight. (The New York Times Book Review)Daum has a charming, breezy style and a pretty wicked sense of humor... The Quality of Life Report is great fun. (USA Today)Daum brings a crisp, wisecracking voice to her novel... an admirably nuanced view of the American heartland. (The New Yorker)

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