{"product_id":"payback-debt-and-the-shadow-side-of-wealth","title":"Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePayback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMargaret Atwood\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780887848100\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHouse of Anansi Pr\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2008\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e3rd Printing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Volumes: \u003c\/b\u003e2\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e230\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow a major motion picture\u003cbr\u003e Official selection: 2012 Sundance Film Festival\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLegendary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePayback\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Pr","offers":[{"title":"Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth | Margaret Atwood | Paperback | 9780887848100 | Used: Like New | Sociology 1739207 (temp: 25)","offer_id":48927905415320,"sku":"1739207","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/514zPsEdYTL.jpg?v=1777058415","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/payback-debt-and-the-shadow-side-of-wealth","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}