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How to be Free is Tom Hodgkinson''s manifesto for a liberated life.

Modern life is absurd. How can we be free?

If you''ve ever wondered why you bother to go to work, or why so much consumer culture is crap, then this book is for you. Looking to history, literature and philosophy for inspiration, Tom Hodgkinson provides a joyful blueprint for a simpler and freer way of life. Filled with practical tips as well as inspiring reflections, here you can learn how to throw off the shackles of anxiety, bureaucracy, debt, governments, housework, supermarkets, waste and much else besides.

Are you ready to be free? Read this book and find out.

''One of the most provocatively entertaining, creatively subversive and, frankly, essential manifestoes of this or any moment'' Time Out

''Crammed with laugh-out-loud jokes and witty put-downs . . . acts as a survival guide for everything from the government to housework. Random

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 07/06/2007
      ISBN13: 9780141022024, 978-0141022024
      ISBN10: 0141022027

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      How to be Free is Tom Hodgkinson''s manifesto for a liberated life.

      Modern life is absurd. How can we be free?

      If you''ve ever wondered why you bother to go to work, or why so much consumer culture is crap, then this book is for you. Looking to history, literature and philosophy for inspiration, Tom Hodgkinson provides a joyful blueprint for a simpler and freer way of life. Filled with practical tips as well as inspiring reflections, here you can learn how to throw off the shackles of anxiety, bureaucracy, debt, governments, housework, supermarkets, waste and much else besides.

      Are you ready to be free? Read this book and find out.

      ''One of the most provocatively entertaining, creatively subversive and, frankly, essential manifestoes of this or any moment'' Time Out

      ''Crammed with laugh-out-loud jokes and witty put-downs . . . acts as a survival guide for everything from the government to housework. Random

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