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Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist margaret atwood gives us a. Each of the books five chapters was delivered as a onehour lecture in a different canadian city, beginning in st. Debt and the shadow side of wealth is a nonfiction book written by margaret atwood, about the nature of debt, for the 2008 massey lectures. Debt and the shadow side of wealth arrived at the end of 2008an opportune time, when families were watching jobs and mortgages implode, corporations and communities running out of credit, and the global economic system undergoing a meltdown, all because of debt. Margaret atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Debt and the shadow side of wealth is the result, in book form, of the five lectures margaret atwood delivered for the cbc massey lectures series in 2008. Debt and the shadow side of wealth offers a fascinating look at debt as a mental construct and traces how it influences relationships, societies, governing structures and the fate of the planet itself. Its not just a matter for ceos, heads of state, hedge fund managers or people with mortgagessubprime or otherwise. In her witty, acutely argued and almost freakishly prescient new book, payback.
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Debt and the shadow side of wealth is the basis for this riveting and poetic documentary on debt in its various formssocietal, personal, environmental, spiritual, criminal, and of course, economic. How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt. Debt and the shadow side of wealth is the basis for this riveting and poetic documentary on debt in its various formssocietal, personal, environmental. Debt and the shadow side of wealth, margaret atwood reveals that her motive for writing this book is based purely on her own curiosity of debt. Margaret atwood currently lives in toronto with writer graeme gibson. Debt and the shadow side of wealth by margaret atwoodthemes linger in the mind but the chatty tone does not translate well, says judith rice. Margaret atwood s nonfiction book about the nature of debt payback.
Payback is a 2012 documentary film from jennifer baichwal based on margaret atwood s payback. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Debt and credit are two weights on opposite sides of a scale. Her latest works are a book of short stories called. In other words, she knows how to tell a good story. While the earlier chapters are interesting, it is the final chapter that has most resonance. In this wideranging history of debt margaret atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Debt and the shadow side of wealth margaret atwood on. Her first book of verse, double persephone, was published in 1961 and was awarded the e. Feb 07, 2020 by looking at how debt has informed our thinking from preliterate times to the present day, from the stories we tell of revenge and sin to the way we order social relationships, atwood argues that the idea of what we owe may well be built into the human imagination as one of its most dynamic metaphors.
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