Name: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (Large Print 16pt)
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Author: Atwood, Margaret
ISBN: 9781459664395

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Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (Large Print 16pt)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Margaret Atwood

Publisher

ReadHowYouWant

Language

English

Pages

300

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 17.8 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9781459664395

Synopsis "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (Large Print 16pt)"

Now a major motion picture. Official selection: 2012 Sundance Film Festival Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist, Margaret Atwood, gives us a surprising look at the topic of debt - a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the collapse of a system of interlocking debts. Atwood proposes that debt is like air - something we take for granted until things go wrong. Payback is not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects. Rather, it is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. By investigating how debt has informed our thinking from preliterate times to the present day through the stories we tell each other, through our concepts of balance, revenge, and sin, and in the way we form our social relationships, Atwood shows that the idea of what we owe one another - in other words, debt - is built into the human imagination and is one of its most dynamic metaphors.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood (Ottawa, 1939) is one of the most prestigious writers on the international scene. A prolific author translated into more than forty languages, she has practiced all literary genres. Among her extensive output, the novels The Heart Goes Last, Alias Grace, The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, Maddaddam, and Cat's Eye stand out, as well as the short story collection Stone Mattress and the essays The Penelopiad and Payback, all published by Salamandra. She has received, among others, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Governor General's Award, the Order of Arts and Letters, the Booker Prize (on two occasions), the Montale Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Giller Prize, the National Arts Club Literary Award, the Franz Kafka International Prize, and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

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