Payback: Debt And The Shadow Side Of Wealth

By Margaret Atwood

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House Of Anansi Press, September 2008

Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters

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The most prestigious and eagerly anticipated nonfiction series of the year teams up with legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood to deliver 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. And then, while gasping for breath, we become very interested in it. 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 pre-literate times to the present day, 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.