num_pages: 203
description: Collected here the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesnt talk about high finance or managing money; instead she goes far deeper to explore debt as an ancient and central motif in religion literature and the structure of human societies. By looking at how debt has informed our thinking from preliterate times to the present day from the stories we tell of revenge and sin to the way we order social relationships Atwood argues that the idea of what we owe may well be built into the human imagination as one of its most dynamic metaphors. Her final lecture addresses the notion of a debt to nature and the need to find new ways of interacting with the natural world before it is too late.
language: English
title: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
publisher: House of Anansi Press