Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesn t talk about high finance or managing ... more

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Posted: Jan-27-2009

Balancing the ledger of human debts

Despite many laurels for many titles, Atwood hasn't attempted anything quite like the essays of this bonbon. If there is a writer's conceit in the enterprise, there is also a writer's insight. She is motivated by curiosity about the "human construct" of debt rather than its...

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Posted: Jan-04-2009

The Mills of the Gods Grind Slowly But They Grind Exceedingly Small

I 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...

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Posted: Dec-31-2008

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.

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Posted: Dec-09-2008

No Answers, Just Maybes

Margaret 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,...

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Posted: Dec-02-2008

Debt and redemption

Given 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...

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Posted: Nov-29-2008

A Fine Distillation

The 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...

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Posted: Nov-21-2008

Life and Debt

What could be more timely, in these economically unstable days, than a discussion about debt? The essays in Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth were presented as a series of radio lectures in Canada in November 2008. While I often enjoy the non-fiction writings of writers who are more...

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