Greener Than You Think
"[...]wasnt tying myself to it for life. All that remained was to find myself a customer. I tried to recall the location of the nearest rural territory. San Fernando valley, probably—a long, tiresome trip. And expensive, unless I wished to demean myself by thumbing rides—a difficult thing to...
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"[...]wasnt tying myself to it for life. All that remained was to find myself a customer. I tried to recall the location of the nearest rural territory. San Fernando valley, probably—a long, tiresome trip. And expensive, unless I wished to demean myself by thumbing rides—a difficult thing to do, burdened as I was by the pump. If she hadnt balked unreasonably about putting the stuff on lawns, I'd have prospects right at hand. I was suddenly lawnconscious. There was probably not a Los Angeles street I hadnt covered at some time—magazines,[...]".
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781505294866 (150529486X)
ASIN: 150529486X
Publish date: 2015-04-24
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 312
Edition language: English
Greener Than You Think is a satire rather than an adventure story. One plant (a Bermuda grass treated with a special growth chemical) slowly spreads across California and beyond, swallowing cities and making vast tracks of land uninhabitable.One challenge with this book is that the narrator, Albert ...