New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City

by William Powers

Book Overview

Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff, left their 2,000-square-foot Queens townhouse, and moved into a 350-square-foot "micro-apartment"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608682390
• ISBN13: 9781608682393
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: New World Library
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.9"