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The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
Author: Erma Bombeck
"She is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living....Lovely stuff." — VOGUE — It's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780070064508
ISBN-10: 0070064504
Publication Date: 9/1976
Pages: 175
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 17 ratings
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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reviewed The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank on + 43 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I enjoyed this book. It's an exagerated but humorous description of the "start" of the suburbs. A good laugh.

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It's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters
samanark avatar reviewed The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank on + 39 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Erma Bombeck at her funniest! For me a nostalgic look back at my childhood in the suburbs.
reviewed The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank on + 26 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Erma was always able to see humor in the every day things in her life.
I identified with a lot of her stories and her honesty.
AimeeR avatar reviewed The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank on + 46 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Bombeck is the queen of humor! funny book ~
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Helpful Score: 1
Funny book about living in the suburbs.
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reviewed The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank on + 190 more book reviews
From the back of the book:

The Grass is always greener over the septic tank is the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: Where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway, and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters.
BrenVid avatar reviewed The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank on + 10 more book reviews
a classic...
Loved her straight forward funny truths...


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