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July 25, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SARAH SUSANKA COMES TO RANDOM HOUSE
FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE NOT SO BIG LIFE
Acclaimed architect Sarah Susanka, whose 1998 bestseller The Not So Big House sparked a national dialogue in home design, will adapt her revolutionary principles to our harried lifestyles in THE NOT SO BIG LIFE, it was announced today by Gina Centrello, President and Publisher of the Random House Publishing Group. Senior editor Susan Mercandetti acquired world rights from agent Gail Ross. The book will be a Random House hardcover and will be reprinted as a Random House Trade Paperback.
In her home design books, which have sold over a million copies, Susanka set out to create an alternative to the soulless, "bigger is better" movement in architecture, using a quality-over-quantity approach to create homes, rather than houses, for her clients. But she discovered in the process that going overboard with our houses is merely a symptom of a more fundamental problem: going overboard with our lives. In THE NOT SO BIG LIFE, she will offer guidelines for easing our chaotic and overcommitted lifestyles, slowing down and eliminating less fulfilling activities to make time for those things that give our lives a personal signature and deep satisfaction.
"Sarah Susanka is a cultural visionary - as an architect she changed the way we think about the spaces in our homes," said Susan Mercandetti. "Now she is doing something even more important: remodeling our lives to show us a simpler, quieter and more fulfilling way to live."
Random House will publish THE NOT SO BIG LIFE in early 2007.
The Random House Publishing Group is a division of Random House, Inc., the U.S. company of Random House, which is the trade book publishing division of Bertelsmann, AG, one of the world's foremost media companies. The Random House Publishing Group is comprised of Ballantine Books, Del Rey, Modern Library, One World, Presidio Press, Random House, and Villard.
Carol Schneider
V.P., Executive Director, Publicity and Public Relations
The Random House Publishing Group
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cschneider@randomhouse.com
