Description
In dread of waking up one morning twenty years on, with nothing to show for himself" other than one busted marriage two unpublished manuscripts, three career changes, a four-bedroom house, a five handicap at golf, and a six-figure income," McFinn decides to go on the bum and scratch his itch for authorship... quitting the job, selling the house, kissing the old lady, and kicking the dog on the way out.
And so, slipping out of the Chicago Loop, our hero-reinvented as beach-bum philosopher, humor writer, restaurateur, newspaper proprietor, and maverick-at-large-retreats to the idyllic tropical shores of Koh Samui, making his new home a rustic bungalow "in a seaside compound for impecunious tourists, tramps, vagabonds, and the occasional fugitive...." Most stay a few weeks, but no one stays longer than he does.
Out of the Loop chronicles M-Finn's humorous adventures and misadventures as he ponders the world from his verandah, encountering assorted bums, bores, boors, and beautiful women (with varying degrees of romantic success and disaster) along the way.
