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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (CBC Massey Lectures) List Price: $15.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.85 You Save: $5.10 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Not yet published
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 306.3 EAN: 9780887848100 ISBN: 0887848109 Label: Anansi Manufacturer: Anansi Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 230 Publication Date: December 30, 2008 Publisher: Anansi Studio: Anansi Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Margaret Atwood delivers 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 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Mills of the Gods Grind Slowly But They Grind Exceedingly SmallI usually enjoy Margaret Atwood's writing and this book is certainly an enjoyable and interesting read. Ms. Atwood presents an admirable discourse on the concept of debt in culture and mythology and one certainly learns something new about literary allusions. The common origin of Saint Nicholas (Santa) and Satan appears to be a bit dubious but is interesting nonetheless. Apropos of the material I finished reading the book and her ecological retelling of the story of Dickens "A Christmas ... Read More Rating:  - Intriguing exploration of the spirituality and psychology of debt.I've never read Atwood before but now want to read her earlier works. Excellent writer with a probing intellect. Highly recommend this book. Rating: - No Answers, Just MaybesMargaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth arrives at an amazingly opportune time, when families are watching jobs and mortgages implode, corporations and communities are running out of credit, and the global economic system is undergoing a meltdown--all because of debt. It is, truly, payback time. And while Atwood's book was completed before the Credit Crash of August, 2008, readers will have that ongoing dramatic scenario fresh in their minds as they follow her investigations into the ... Read More Rating: - Debt and redemptionGiven the current worldwide economic malaise, it appears rather prescient that the 2008 Massey Lectures address the subject of debt. In these lectures, Margaret Atwood examines of the concept of debt as a motif in human society, particularly through an examination of metaphors of debt in western literature. As such, this book only obliquely deals with personal monetary debts. Rather, the focus is on the more general idea of debt in relation to justice, sin, redemption, balance, and revenge, among other topics. ... Read More Rating: - A Fine DistillationThe last chapter of this book should be required reading in the upcoming holiday weeks. Atwood does a marvelous job of distilling the human predicament into something that even the most systems-challenged among us can understand -- and hopefully act upon. It was with some amusement that I read the review of this book by The Economist magazine. The first sentence of the review: "Without debt there would be no capitalism; mankind would be living in caves and eating whatever it killed." Somehow I missed ... Read More 
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