9781947793200-1947793209-Possum Living: How to Live Well without a Job and With (Almost) No Money

Possum Living: How to Live Well without a Job and With (Almost) No Money

ISBN-13: 9781947793200
ISBN-10: 1947793209
Edition: 1
Author: Dolly Freed
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Tin House Books
Format: Paperback 225 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781947793200
ISBN-10: 1947793209
Edition: 1
Author: Dolly Freed
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Tin House Books
Format: Paperback 225 pages

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Possum Living: How to Live Well without a Job and With (Almost) No Money (ISBN-13: 9781947793200 and ISBN-10: 1947793209), written by authors Dolly Freed, was published by Tin House Books in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Women (Specific Groups, Beauty, Grooming, & Style, Cultural & Regional) books. You can easily purchase or rent Possum Living: How to Live Well without a Job and With (Almost) No Money (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Women books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.3.

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"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
"Compulsively readable… 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 Arts Beat
"Dolly is a sharp writer, an autodidact and an 18-year-old of unusual competence and grit…There’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."
― O, The Oprah Magazine
"Possum Living, a manifesto for living cheaply…is a relevant and sassy manual for the non-consumer lifestyle."
― Flavorwire
"An elegant memoir."
― Philadelphia City Paper
" A paean to self-sufficiency."
― Columbia Journal Review
“A back-to-the-land classic” (Garden & Gun) that will “inspire you to embrace a simpler life” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
In the late seventies, at the age of eighteen and with a seventh-grade education, Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living about the five years she and her father lived off the land on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia. At the time of its publication in 1978, Possum Living became an instant classic, known for its plucky narration and no-nonsense practical advice on how to quit the rat race and live frugally. In her delightful, straightforward, and irreverent style, Freed guides readers on how to buy and maintain a home, raise and grow their own food, cope with the law, stay healthy, save money, and more, all in the name of self-reliant, independent living.
Forty years later, Possum Living remains an essential guide to going off the grid. This updated edition includes an introduction by Novella Carpenter, and new wisdom from Freed on aging, used cars, emergency funds, and how to get back in touch with yourself. Possum Living, says Freed, is about how to cook; to go fishing; to be with family, friends, and neighbors; to forage for wild berries; to enjoy a hobby; to relax; or, even better, to do nothing at all. Some of the best living, she reminds us, happens in possum time.

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