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

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

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) (in English)"

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) es una de las escritoras más prestigiosas del panorama internacional. Autora prolífica traducida a más de cuarenta idiomas, ha practicado todos los géneros literarios. Entre su amplia producción destacan las novelas Por último, el corazón, Alias Grace, El cuento de la criada, Los testamentos, Oryx y Crake, El año del Diluvio, Maddaddam y Ojo de gato, la colección de relatos Nueve cuentos malvados y los ensayos Penélope y las doce criadas y Cuestiones candentes, todos ellos publicados por Salamandra. Ha recibido, entre otros, el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, el Governor General's Award, la Orden de las Artes y las Letras, el Premio Booker (en dos ocasiones), el Premio Montale, el Premio Nelly Sachs, el Premio Giller, el Premio Literario del National Arts Club, el Premio Internacional Franz Kafka y el Premio de la Paz del Gremio de Libreros Alemanes.

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