I Was Much Happier When Everything I Owned Was In The Backseat Of My Volkswagen: A Wake-up Call For The...
- ISBN-10
- 0974965901
- ISBN-13
- 9780974965901
- Category
- Social change
- Pages
- 185
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-04
- Publisher
- Informed Sources Incorporated
- Author
- Richard Roberts
Description
"Roberts admires, and resembles, George Carlin, whose half-groucy irony always bears common sense."--Mopsey Strange Kennedy in The Improper Bostonian
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