2040: A Fable

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"A thoughtful and absorbing read," notes the American living legend Jay Parini, "with a message to the world. Bruce Piasecki writes with energy and vision." William Throop adds: "Rich in humor and creative disruption, Piasecki's compelling feable of turbulent times reveals a human wisdom. His Fellineqque cast of characters share bursts of insight about life in an age of surveillance capitalism." Come into this warm and bizarre neighborhood, consistently of a literary agent neighbor of Georg who is a friendly conspiratorialist! Watch the fantastical diatribes of George's colleage mates, Winston and Abe, and his articulate loving wife Varlissima. They talk about survival, books, birds, and express many loving things. The book peaks in the bizarre but believeable trial of Uncle Finn, who before the Event Police, is a regular guy with a photographic memory, reciting Shakespeare and describing places exactly he that only once saw in the Saratoga library. "This is my home, my neighborhood" the author declares, as he explore "the divine, splendid isolation of Covid-19" for all of us. Finale includes hilariously sportive but serious chapters called "Let Us All Start Again" and "All We Need is Hope."

Bruce Piasecki is the author of over a dozen books, including the New York Times and USA Today bestseller Doing More with Less: The New Way to Wealth. A homage to creative frugality and Ben Franklin, that DMWL book is now out in Spanish and Polish. Before DMWL, Bruce Piasecki wrote for Simon and Schuster; his title there, In Search of Environmental Excellence, was ranked by the Library of Congress as one of the top 100 books on Nature in the 20th century. In Search came out in editions by Quality Paperback Books and editions by Rodale; it was noted widely. During the last dozen books, Piasecki has tried his hand at biographies (Linda Coady, Eileen Fisher, Giants of Social Investing), creative memoir (Missing Persons) and has written non-fiction Business and Society books that had him on book tours in Australia, Ireland, England, Scotland and other nations. His book World Inc, translated into a dozen foreign editions, won a book of the year in Japanese, and has been recognized as a major reflection on globalization and its discontents. Piasecki's management consulting firm has worked for Walmart in Africa across four years, for Toyota across decades, and now runs leadership councils of world experts for Merck, Walgreens Alliance Boots, and others. His leadership workshop series, the Corporate Affiliates Programs, has now enrolled over 300 of the Fortune 500 firms. At age 65, with the descent of Covid-19 before his family, friends, and firm, Bruce Piasecki wrote the fable 2040.