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My Dam Life

by Sean Condon
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Overview

In Sean & David's Long Drive he careered around Australia with his laconic pal David in a retro Ford Falcon. In Drive Thru America he and David cruised the States in a very uncool Chrysler Neon.

Now Australian humorist Sean Condon is married and living in Amsterdam - jobless, homeless, careless and Dave-less. In My 'Dam Life he casts a witty, watchful and wonderfully self-deprecating eye over his expat experience of laziness and leisure, dreams and destiny in the Venice of the North.

With his uncanny ability to seek out the absurd in everyday life, Sean finds plenty of targets in a city of hemp and high culture, canals and bicycles, idiosyncratic plumbing and internationally unrenowned cuisine. My 'Dam Life strikes a hilarious chord with anyone who has followed their dream of starting a new life abroad.

Synopsis

In Sean & David's Long Drive he careered around Australia with his laconic pal David in a retro Ford Falcon. In Drive Thru America he and David cruised the States in a very uncool Chrysler Neon.

Now Australian humorist Sean Condon is married and living in Amsterdam - jobless, homeless, careless and Dave-less. In My 'Dam Life he casts a witty, watchful and wonderfully self-deprecating eye over his expat experience of laziness and leisure, dreams and destiny in the Venice of the North.

With his uncanny ability to seek out the absurd in everyday life, Sean finds plenty of targets in a city of hemp and high culture, canals and bicycles, idiosyncratic plumbing and internationally unrenowned cuisine. My 'Dam Life strikes a hilarious chord with anyone who has followed their dream of starting a new life abroad.

San Francisco Chronicle

...a smart and funny book

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San Francisco Chronicle

...a smart and funny book
β€” San Francisco Chronicle

Library Journal

In spring 1999, former advertising copywriter and journalist Condon (Sean and David's Long Drive) and his wife, Sally, a magazine editor, left Melbourne, Australia, for her new posting in Amsterdam. Their subsequent three-year sojourn is distilled in this travel memoir. Playing urban anthropologist, Condon actively investigated Amsterdam's laissez-faire approach to sex and soft drugs. Holland, he discovered, has a traditionally strong international entrepreneurial spirit, yet this commercial expansiveness belies a collective folk insularity that breeds xenophobia and racism. Consequently, Condon was frequently denied a work permit. When not bemoaning his idleness and joblessness, Condon describes encounters or interviews with faux celebrities (Xaviera Hollander, Roger Moore, Monica Lewinsky). The results are neither interesting nor enlightening, as Condon's interviewing technique is akin to late-night talk-show buffoonery. Despite an energetic and humorous style, Condon's book has a mocking, self-serving, and flippant tone that thwarts what might have been an engaging scrutiny of Dutch customs and mores. Not recommended.-Lonnie Weatherby, McGill Univ., Montreal Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Book Details

Published
February 1, 2003
Publisher
Lonely Planet Publications
Pages
248
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780864427816

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