Acres and Pains Author:S. J. Perelman If you can spare the time to drive sixty miles into the backwoods of eastern Pennsylvania, crouch down in a bed of poison ivy, and peer through the sumacs, you will be rewarded by an interesting sight. What you will see is a middle aged city dweller, as lean and bronzed as a shad's belly gnawing his fingernails and wondering how to aba... more »ndon a farm.
Thus begins ACRES AND PAINS, S.J. Perelman's unique testament to the joys and tribulations of country living. ACRES AND PAINS describes purchase and transformation of the Perelman property, Rising George, as our hero transforms himself from city lzybones to country squire. Along the way we meet:
his real estate agent, Dewey Naivete
a succession of handymen, all named Lafe
his attorney, Newmown Hay, of the firm Ashen, Livid and Hay