Possum living: How to live well without a job and with almost no money - Softcover

Dolly Fried

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553136259 ISBN 13: 9780553136258

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1709

Synopsis

Small stain on back cover, slight wear on front cover. Otherwise in very good condition.

About this title

About the Author:

Following her success as an author, Dolly Freed grew up to be a NASA aerospace engineer. She put herself through college after she aced the SATs with an education she received from the public library. She has also been an environmental educator, business owner, and college professor. She lives in Texas with her husband and two children.

Review:

Dolly Freed is my hero .[If] this smart, engaging, funny, and frank manifesto doesn’t make you want to quit the rat race at least a little bit, then you must be one big, fat rat.”
--Vice Magazine

Compulsively readable [In]this strange, engaging hymn to the laid-back life now, in 2010, one message comes out loud and clear. As the 18-year-old sage Dolly Freed wrote: I refuse to spend the first 60 years of my life worrying about the last 20.’”
--New York Times Art Beat

Dolly is a sharp writer, an autodidact and an 18-year-old of unusual competence and grit [T]here’s nothing precious about Possum Living: it's genuine in a way few books are, ”
--Jezebel

this book will not only make you laugh but might actually inspire you to embrace a simpler life.”
--Oprah Magazine

An elegant memoir”
--Philadelphia City Paper

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1709
• ISBN 10: 0553136259
• ISBN 13: 9780553136258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220