Parking Ticket.(TEPPER ISN'T GOING OUT: A NOVEL.) (book review)
Nation, The, February, 2002
TEPPER ISN'T GOING OUT: A NOVEL. By Calvin Trillin. Random House. 215 pp. $22.95.
Murray Tepper, the star of Nation "Deadline Poet" Calvin Trillin's new novel, drives a dark blue Chevy Malibu. Rather, he parks it--in coveted spots all over Manhattan--at nightfall to read the New York Post, "which he still considered an evening paper, even though it had been coming out in the morning for years." Using various signals, including a finger-wag he perfected overseas to ward off prostitutes and beggars, Tepper wordlessly informs hungry parking-spot-searchers that no, he isn't going out.
Sixty-seven-year-old Tepper's got a garage spot, of course. But using it means he's "given up." For years he relished meeting the challenges of alternate-side parking on the...
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