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Arguing that humans' lust for mechanized "progress" has damaged and endangered not only the planet but human communities, families, and friendships, the author calls for a return to simplicity by putting the human spirit ahead of material wealth.
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About the Author
Ferenc Máté is the author of 15 books translated into 12 languages, including New York Times Notable Book A Vineyard in Tuscany and the Dugger/Nello historical sea adventure fiction series. He lives in a 13-century friary with his family tending vines and olives in Tuscany. Visit www.ferencmate.com
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A Reasonable Life is wonderful! This fast-paced book is just what we need to slow us down and think. I hope everyone--especially the young--gets to see a copy. -- Pete Seeger
A masterpiece. Ferenc Mate writes brilliantly with Runyonesque humor and poetic prose. He satirizes our modern society driven by greed and mindlessness, and in its place he recommends the ultimate sanity. I loved it. Highly recommended. -- Dr. Helen Caldicott, author of If You Love This Planet
An anti-materialist Philippic that's fun to read. I feel saner for having read it. -- John R. MacArthur, publisher, Harper's Magazine
Ferenc Mate presents a host of creative ideas in his trumpet call for new lifestyles on the part of each and every one of us. Read it, disagree as much as you like, but you can't help but be struck by his blazing enthusiasm and optimism--then read it again. -- Dr. Norman Myers, winner of the World Wildlife Fund Gold Medal and author of Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management and The Primary Source: Tropical Forests and Our Future
Mate's book establishes him as the leader of the new counter-culture movement. A Reasonable Life is more complex, comprehensive and much more funny than anything written in the sixties. -- CJFC Radio
Mate's book strikes straight to the heart with its passionate argument for safe country living, home gardens, family businesses, independence without isolation. A Reasonable Life targets right on the decay which is destroying sound American values and lifestyles. -- Anne LaBastille, author of Woodswoman and Beyond Black Bear Lake
The most powerful, damning, inspiring and hopeful call for a fulfilled life you can imagine. Now if we would only just listen for the sake of our children. -- Country Journal
This book will look insane to a normal American. Which shows how crazy we have become. Read it--you might get a life. -- Charles Bowden, author of Desierto and Juarez : The Laboratory of Our Future
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0920256252
- ISBN 13 9780920256251
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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