Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (CBC Massey Lectures)

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. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-30-2009; Serious subject told with wit and humor; Margaret Atwood's book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, is fascinating. Her list of glittering prizes is long. The reader is treated to a mature voice; a voice of wisdom and playfulness. In other words, she knows how to tell...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-13-2009; What We Owe; Novelist Margaret Atwood presents a long essay (based on a November 2008 CBC lecture series) on the nature of debt, in all its guises. Not only monetary debt, but debts of fealty, debts of gratitude, debts of kinship and blood debts....; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-12-2009; Fantastic epic; Atwood is at the top of her game, and am amazed of the subject she chose to write about. Not only "timely" but dead accurate.Should be required reading for all who think thye understand the financial handling of money, debt.An eye opener.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-05-2009; Payback by Margaret Atwood; This well priced used book was received in excellent (like new) condition. It was mailed promptly and well wrapped.; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-30-2009; Serious subject told with wit and humor; Margaret Atwood's book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, is fascinating. Her list of glittering prizes is long. The reader is treated to a mature voice; a voice of wisdom and playfulness. In other words, she knows how to tell...; read full review | report as inappropriate