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"All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: 'Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?'"
- Dave Barry,
'Sweating Out Taxes'
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ZIN Product Number: 10032082
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 Format: Paperback, 264 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: Harcourt
ISBN: 0156153408
Release Date: Jan 5, 1987
| |  | | | In Brief
The events recounted in this novel date from "November 2, 1989, only days before the Berlin Wall began to crumble. A chance encounter between a German art-historian, Alexander, and a Polish art-restorer, Alexandra, . . . {results in a plan to} found and develop a . . . Cemetery Association to enable exiles to opt for burial in their native Polish soil, uniting again those whom recent history has forced apart. . . . The plan snowballs out of control and into the hands of others more entrepreneurial and less naively idealistic than the quaint couple who had thought it all up." (Times Lit Suppl) First published in Germany in 1992.
| | | | From The Publisher
The author of The Tin Drum is back in Danzig with The Call of the Toad, a poignant, irreverent, funny novel about two people who find adventure in love and business. The love is late middle-aged; the business is the cemetery business. The couple's vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. He, the German, will provide not only the bodies but cash and know-how; she, the Pole, will provide the human warmth and political fervor. Gunter Grass tells a tale of capitalism taken to absurd extremes as he skewers both the German and the Polish characters, past, present, and future - with the style, tenderness, and baroque inventiveness that have made him famous.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Writing with the wit and savage energy that have made him famous, Grass skewers the commercial imperialism of German reunification in his provocative new novel. "Reconciliation," cemeteries, environmentally friendly rickshaws in the streets of Gdansk, and the hazards of middle-aged love are all part of the mix in this riotous, macabre tale
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Fiction, Fiction - General, Literary, Poland, Fiction, Cemeteries, Germans, GdaGnsk, GdaGnsk (Poland)
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