Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
de Margaret Atwood
- Usado
- very good
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0747598495
- ISBN 13
- 9780747598497
- Librería
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Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
London, U.K.: Bloomsbury, 2008 230 pages. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are lightly foxed. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
Sinopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-219) and index.
Reseñas
El Apr 23 2014, un lector dijo:
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.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Goulds Book Arcade (AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 167312
- Título
- Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
- Autor
- Margaret Atwood
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0747598495
- ISBN 13
- 9780747598497
- Editorial
- Bloomsbury
- Lugar de publicación
- London, U.K.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2008
- Palabras clave
- [270G DEBT MONEY FINANCE MARGARET ATWOOD THEORY WRITING LITERATURE
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Sobre Goulds Book Arcade
A local, family-run bookshop, Goulds is a member of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA).
Since 1989 Goulds Book Arcade was at the city end of King St, Newtown, but moved in late 2018.
The shop is now located at 536 King St.
That's directly opposite Alice St in south Newtown, near the New Theatre.
If you want to pick up ordered items from the shop please contact us first as the listed items are not stored at the shop.
Since 1989 Goulds Book Arcade was at the city end of King St, Newtown, but moved in late 2018.
The shop is now located at 536 King St.
That's directly opposite Alice St in south Newtown, near the New Theatre.
If you want to pick up ordered items from the shop please contact us first as the listed items are not stored at the shop.
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