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{"id":6818794209339,"title":"Payback","handle":"payback-1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow a major motion picture\u003cbr\u003e\nOfficial selection: 2012 Sundance Film Festival\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\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","published_at":"2022-03-30T10:30:36-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T09:08:52-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Nonfiction","Adult Special Edition","Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Atwood Margaret","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2007-03-15","The CBC Massey Lectures"],"price":10000,"price_min":10000,"price_max":10000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40247932256315,"title":"hardcover limited edition","option1":"hardcover limited edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887842269","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Payback - hardcover limited edition","public_title":"hardcover limited edition","options":["hardcover limited edition"],"price":10000,"weight":499,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887842269","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a2d8a5a6-f937-48e5-8d9e-e26ed189c98b.jpg?v=1678597196"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a2d8a5a6-f937-48e5-8d9e-e26ed189c98b.jpg?v=1678597196","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324508127291,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.643,"height":575,"width":370,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a2d8a5a6-f937-48e5-8d9e-e26ed189c98b.jpg?v=1678597196"},"aspect_ratio":0.643,"height":575,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a2d8a5a6-f937-48e5-8d9e-e26ed189c98b.jpg?v=1678597196","width":370}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow a major motion picture\u003cbr\u003e\nOfficial selection: 2012 Sundance Film Festival\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\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"}
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Writing in this mode, she's never off her game.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“These pieces offer a panoramic look at how the concept of debt acts as a fundamental human bond and - when obligations go unfulfilled, when ledgers are left unbalanced - how it can threaten to tear societies apart.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeorgia Straight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“Atwood's book is a weird but wonderful melange of personal reminiscences, literary walkabout, moral preachment, timely political argument, economic history and theological query, all bound together with wry wit and careful though casual-seeming research.†††††††” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In her 2008 CBC Massey Lectures, Margaret Atwood delivers a wide ranging, entertaining, and imaginative look at the topic of debt.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"02","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeName_0":"OLA Evergreen Award (Forest of Reading)","PrizeName_1":"National Business Book Award","PrizeName_2":"Axiom Business Book Awards - Business Ethics","PrizeName_3":"Globe and Mail Top 100 Best Books of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2008","PrizeYear_1":"2009","PrizeYear_2":"2008","PrizeYear_3":"2008","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover limited edition","PublicationDate":"2007-03-15","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"In her 2008 CBC Massey Lectures, Margaret Atwood delivers a wide ranging, entertaining, and imaginative look at the topic of debt.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}