The subtitle of Josh Kilmer Purcell's "The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers" says it all. Determined to do it with style, grace, and humor, Josh and his partner set upon a crumbling upstate New York estate. Armistead Maupin said it perfectly: 鈥淗e makes you laugh until you care.鈥 This book is utterly fabulous.