Cabin Pressure: One Man"s Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor

Цена 22.95 - 39.02 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781401302603

Автор

Издатель Hyperion

Страниц 288

Год выпуска 2007

What happens when a grown man returns to the site of his fondest childhood memories? A wry, clear-eyed, and laugh-out-loud look at the transition to adulthood Three months before getting married at age thirty-four, Josh Wolk decides to treat himself to a "farewell to childhood" extravaganza: one last summer working at the beloved Maine boys" camp where he spent most of the eighties. And there he finds out that there"s no better way to see how much you"ve changed than to revisit a place that hasn"t changed at all. In these eight hilarious, uncomfortable, enlightening weeks, Josh readjusts to life teaching swimming and balancing on a thin metal cot in a cabin of shouting, wrestling, wet-willie-dispensing fourteen-year-olds who, contrary to the warnings of doomsaying sociologists, he finds indistinguishable from the rowdy fourteen-year-olds of his day in any way other than their haircuts. With his old camp friends gone, he finds himself working alongside guys who used to be...