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, exploring debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies.
| Main Author: | Atwood, Margaret, 1939- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Toronto : Berkeley, CA :
Anansi ; Distributed in the United States by Publishers Group West,
2008.
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| Series: |
Massey lectures
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| Summary: |
Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt, exploring debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. |
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| Physical Description: |
230 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-219) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780887848001 0887848001 9780887848100 (pbk.) 0887848109 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: |
Her first book of verse, Double Persephone, was published in 1961 and was awarded the E. J. Pratt Medal. She has published numerous books of poetry, novels, story collections, critical work, juvenile work, and radio and teleplays. Her works include The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Power Politics, Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Morning in the Buried House, the MaddAdam trilogy, and The Heart Goes Last. She has won numerous awards including the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Booker Prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin, the Giller Prize and the Premio Mondello for Alias Grace, and the Governor General's Award in 1966 for The Circle Game and in 1986 for The Handmaid's Tale, which also won the very first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987. She won the PEN Pinter prize in 2016 for her political activism. She was awarded the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize for the outstanding literary merit of her body of work. (Bowker Author Biography) |