Last Trout in Venice.the for-flung escapades of an occidental adventurer. Doug Lansky. 2001. Read by Paul Mercier Paul Mercier is the name of:
Author Lansky should be easy to spot at most any tourist destination A tourist destination is a city, town or other area the economy of which is dependent to a significant extent on the revenues accruing from tourism. It may contain one or more tourist attractions or visitor attractions and possibly some "tourist traps". . He's the one who doesn't quite fit in, but is gamely trying all the same--secure in the knowledge that his trial-and-error escapades, however embarrassing at the time, will eventually become a funny story. Armed with what one reviewer has called "a bottomless taste for the absurd,' Lansky--syndicated columnist, TV host, public radio commentator, and editor of the travel anthology There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled--examines a host of fruitful new destinations in his newest collection. They run the gamut from bravely renting a car in what is supposedly the world's worst city for driving (Naples, Italy), to auditioning as a costumed contestant on TV's The Price is Right, to donning a latex jumpsuit and spiked collar at Berlin's Kit Kat sex club. Other "accidental adventures" include a Sumo sumo: see wrestling. sumo Japanese form of wrestling.A contestant loses if he is forced out of the ring (a 15-ft circle) or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet touches the ground. wrestling lesson, a Texas cattle auction, and an ill-fated stint as a gondolier in Venice's Grand Canal, at the climax of which he comes face to face with the sea creature of the title. Production values are excellent throughout, and reader Mercier is an effective alter ego A doctrine used by the courts to ignore the corporate status of a group of stockholders, officers, and directors of a corporation in reference to their limited liability so that they may be held personally liable for their actions when they have acted fraudulently or unjustly or when for adventurer Lansky, with just the right blend of wryness, naivete na·ive·té or na·ïve·té n. 1. The state or quality of being inexperienced or unsophisticated, especially in being artless, credulous, or uncritical. 2. An artless, credulous, or uncritical statement or act. , and joie de vivre joie de vi·vre n. Hearty or carefree enjoyment of life. [French : joie, joy + de, of + vivre, to live, living. . Carroll Dale Short, Birmingham, AL |
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