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Payback
Margaret Atwood
Bloomsbury Publishing
Philosophy, Politics and Current Affairs
Payback is an intelligent, wide-ranging book that examines the metaphor of debt and the role it takes in our lives. Rather than debt management or high finance, this is about debt as a very old, central motif in religion and literature and also in the structuring of human societies. Atwood looks at the language of debt in the Old Testament and investigates debt as sin in medieval and Elizabethan literature, before it develops into a plot-driving concept in nineteenth and twentieth century novels. The final essay explores how debt as a metaphor affects our understanding of the environment and death. Topical, enlightening and probing.
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