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Good Life Ser.: Loving and Leaving the Good Life by Helen Nearing (1993, Trade P
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Memoir
- ISBN
- 9780930031633
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Loving and Leaving the Good Life
- Book Series
- Good Life Ser.
- Features
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Chelsea Green Publishing
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Women, Personal Memoirs, General
About this product
Product Information
Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other bestselling books, lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100. Loving and Leaving the Good Life is Helen's testimonial to their life together and to what they stood for: self-sufficiency, generosity, social justice, and peace. In 1932, after deciding it would be better to be poor in the country than in the city, Helen and Scott moved from New York Ciy to Vermont. Here they created their legendary homestead which they described in Living the Good Life: How to Live Simply and Sanely in a Troubled World, a book that has sold 250,000 copies and inspired thousands of young people to move back to the land. The Nearings moved to Maine in 1953, where they continued their hard physical work as homesteaders and their intense intellectual work promoting social justice. Thirty years later, as Scott approached his 100th birthday, he decided it was time to prepare for his death. He stopped eating, and six weeks later Helen held him and said goodbye. Loving and Leaving the Good Life is a vivid self-portrait of an independent, committed and gifted woman. It is also an eloquent statement of what it means to grow old and to face death quietly, peacefully, and in control. At 88, Helen seems content to be nearing the end of her good life. As she puts it, "To have partaken of and to have given love is the greatest of life's rewards. There seems never an end to the loving that goes on forever and ever. Loving and leaving are part of living." Helen's death in 1995 at the age of 92 marks the end of an era. Yet as Helen writes in her remarkable memoir, "When one door closes, another opens." As we search for a new understanding of the relationships between death and life, this book provides profound insights into the question of how we age and die.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN-10
0930031636
ISBN-13
9780930031633
eBay Product ID (ePID)
779646
Product Key Features
Book Title
Loving and Leaving the Good Life
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Topic
Women, Personal Memoirs, General
Features
Reprint
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Book Series
Good Life Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5in.
Item Length
9in.
Item Weight
7.5 Oz
Item Width
6in.
Additional Product Features
LCCN
91-044013
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Library Journal- This quiet and reserved memoir is a tribute to the "good life" and the ideals of self-sufficiency, simplicity, socialism, and pacifism that Helen and Scott Nearing shared for 53 years. Helen was 24 years old in 1928 when she met Scott, a married 45-year-old economics professor who had been blacklisted by universities and publishers for his radical views. In 1932, the Nearings left New York City for a Vermont farm, beginning the homesteading life described in their Living the Good Life (1954), the bible of the back-to-the-land movement. Later, they moved to Maine where, during the 1960s and 1970s, they played host to 2000 visitors a year. For Scott and Helen, old age was a "time of fulfillment. Scott kept his strength and bearing all through his last decades." But as he neared his 100th birthday in 1983, he chose to leave the good life peacefully by fasting. Helen is a modest narrator, at times so self-effacing that she switches into third person as when she discusses her relationship with the Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. Still, her eloquent chapter on death and old age and her loving portrait of a remarkable man makes this a recommended purchase for public libraries.
Illustrated
Yes
Edition Description
Reprint
Lc Classification Number
S521
Table of Content
1. No longer the two of us 2. When we two met 3. Scott the exemplar 4. Helen the free spirit 5. Young impressionable Krishnamurti 6. Both of us together 7. We take to the woods of Vermont 8. Moving on to Maine 9. Queries and comments 10. Twilight and evening star
Number of Pages
224 Pages
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- i***i (224)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseUsed paperbacks can be hit or miss, but this set of books came quickly, packed well, all in good shape as pictured and described, so very pleased with purchase, a good value too. Would recommend seller.Bill Bryson Lot Of 6 Trade Paperbacks One Summer Lost Continent Sunburned Countr (#166901481501)
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