Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Description* 
In Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth literary legend Margaret Atwood delivers 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. In her wide-ranging, entertaining, and imaginative approach to the subject, Atwood proposes that debt is like air - something we take for granted until things go wrong.


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Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is shelved as PR9199.3.A8.P39 2008. 

As a book it can be found on Bookstack 3 - Shelf 16. This book can be checked out for a period of 2 weeks for students, faculty and staff. 

About the Author*

Accomplished in equal measure as a poet, novelist, and essayist, Margaret Atwood is as much a dazzling storyteller as she is a committed feminist. Her novels and stories educate as much as they entertain, but without ever veering into dogmatism.

Reviews*

By PUBLISHERS WEEKLY:

Atwood's book is a weird but wonderful mélange of personal reminiscences, literary walkabout, moral preachment, timely political argument, economic history and theological query, all bound together with wry wit and careful though casual-seeming research. "Every debt comes with a date on which payment is due," Atwood observes on this conversational stroll, from the homely and familiar "notion of fairness" and "notion of equivalent values" in Kingsley's Water Babies to the thornier connection between debt and sin, memory and redemption in Aeschylus's Eumenides.

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Citations

Description, About the Author, and Review taken from BARNES AND NOBLE: (B&N)

By: Lauren Regenhardt, LRC Intern