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Payback
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth | Margaret Atwood
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Explores debt as a central historical component of religion, literature, and societal structure, while examining the idea of humanity's debt to the natural world.
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underground_bks
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Margaret Atwood applies her trademark wit and expansive mind to the subject of debt, touching on literature, religion, mythology, environmentalism, and history. A lively and fascinating contemplation on a subject a little too familiar to us all, Payback is a read for the curious. It‘s more likely to fill you with a couple more questions, rather than an answer to the one you started with. Very Atwoodian!

Lcsmcat How had I not heard of this? Stacked! 5y
underground_bks @Lcsmcat Years ago I got to take a college course wholly on Atwood and we watched a documentary based on this book, which itself is based on a series of lectures she gave on CBC radio! 5y
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Creadnorthey
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I took a long time with this- this is some of Atwood‘s most heady dense writing as she winds around the topic of debt and credit, owed and owing. Super interesting, a literary referral dream with a poignant last chapter that is becoming dangerously out dated as our global credit dwindles to a zero sum game. READ and REACT!

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