Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
by Atwood, Margaret
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0887848001
- ISBN 13
- 9780887848001
- Seller
-
Houston, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
House of Anansi Press, 2008-10-07. paperback. Acceptable. 5x0x8.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-219) and index.
Reviews
On Apr 23 2014, a reader said:
Precision and zest are two pretty good defining terms for any writing Margaret Atwood lays her hand to. And irony, and intelligence: those virtues, as Hitchens remarks, we are so much warned against. Irony layers her language: one of her poem collections is called YOU ARE HAPPY; one of her most moving poems is called “Last Day”. The quick vitality, her points that form themselves a shade faster than we expect, her boomerang use of current phrases—all these give Atwood’s artistry a contrarian side. In PAYBACK: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (Anansi, 2008), the topic leaps off the ledger page and Atwood demonstrates its fiscal, emotional, sacrificial and literary facets as one of the conditions of our lives, as our great imaginary construct and as a recurring topic of our imaginative writing. It’s an ideal subject for Atwood to raise her eyebrow over, and in two hundred rapid pages we get Euripides, Eric Berne, Madame Defarge, Solon, the daughter of Jephthah, gelada monkeys, the Bedoneby sisters, Shylock (of course), Faustus (of course) and Scrooge (Original, Lite and Nouveau)—and an exceedingly interesting bibliography of current ecology websites. How much more shadowy can you get, Atwood has her reader ask, four chapters in: “Quite a lot more, because it’s shadowiest just before it gets even shadowier. But never mind, I’m saving the hopeful stuff for the end of the book. Just like Pandora.” Atwood as contrarian? In the fifth and final chapter: “I’ll try to make this as painless as possible. No, on second thought, I won’t do that: because if it were painless, it wouldn’t be about payback, would it?” Brava.
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Your Online Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0887848001-4-31380574
- Title
- Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
- Author
- Atwood, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0887848001
- ISBN 13
- 9780887848001
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2008-10-07
- Size
- 5x0x8
- X weight
- 10 oz
Terms of Sale
Your Online Bookstore
We provide a 30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives damaged or not as it was described in the listing.
About the Seller
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...