Possum Living
How to Live Well without a Job and With (Almost) No Money
$36.91
- Paperback
225 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2019
Summary
“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 qui…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781947793200 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1947793209 |
| Author: | Dolly Freed, Novella Carpenter |
| Publisher: | Tin House |
| Imprint: | Tin House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 225 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 283g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 15mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
”…thisbook will not only make you laugh but might actually inspire you to embrace asimpler life.”
DollyFreed is my hero….[If] this smart, engaging, funny, and frank manifesto…doesn’tmake you want to quit the rat race at least a little bit, then you must be onebig, fat rat.—Vice
Compulsivelyreadable… One message comes out loud and clear. As the 18-year-old sage DollyFreed wrote: ‘I refuse to spend the first 60 years of my life worrying aboutthe last 20.’—New York Times Arts Beat
Compulsivelyreadable… One message comes out loud and clear. As the 18-year-old sage DollyFreed wrote: ‘I refuse to spend the first 60 years of my life worrying aboutthe 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
…thisbook will not only make you laugh but might actually inspire you to embrace asimpler life.—O, The Oprah Magazine
Possum Living, a manifesto for living cheaply…is a relevant and sassy manual for the non-consumer lifestyle.—Flavorwire
Anelegant memoir.—Philadelphia City Paper
A paean to self-sufficiency.—Columbia Journal Review
About The Author
Dolly Freed
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.Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City and Going Feral, is an urban farmer and writer based in Oakland, CA. She studied at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she worked closely with Michael Pollan and Cynthia Gorney. Her farm, GhostTown, started in 2003, and these days hosts a flock of chickens, honey bees, vegetable beds, and 30 fruit trees. Carpenter teaches writing and urban agriculture at the University of San Francisco.
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