{"product_id":"the-goodenough-life-9780691254685","title":"The GoodEnough Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Financial Times FT Critics' Book of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"This book found me at just the right time. . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe Good-Enough Life\u003c\/i\u003e] offers a bit of an antidote or a countercultural approach to designing communities and systems. . . [It’s a] philosophical, semi-political, pro-social, contemplative approach to designing a new way forward.\"\u003cb\u003e---Alyson Stoner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Alpert’s] vision of a good-enough world is energizing.\"\u003cb\u003e---Lily Meyer, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Good-Enough Life\u003c\/i\u003e leaves no meritocracy standing. . . . [A] jolt of reorientation.\"\u003cb\u003e---Emily Ogden, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cp\u003e[W]e should bestow social recognition . . . .on common moral qualities, not on uncommon talent. It should be good enough just to be good enough . . . . [This is] Alpert’s case, and he makes it well.\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e---Andrew Stark, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Read this book, breathe a sigh of relief, and then go take a nap.\"\u003cb\u003e---Rana Foroohar, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an amazing and deeply inspiring book. Alpert employs a prose style that is wrought like fine gold jewelry. There is scarcely a page from which this reader does not wish to quote and share Alpert's wisdom with others.\" * Choice *","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403933589847,"sku":"9780691254685","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691254685.jpg?v=1730484925","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-goodenough-life-9780691254685","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}