To have and to be had
Written by Eula Biss
Reported by Alex McKenna
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ PICK
NAMED BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, INSTYLE AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
“A sensational new book [that] attempts to determine whether it is possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . . . The results are exciting. —Associated Press
A timely and gripping new look at wealth from the New York Times bestselling author, “one of the defining figures of modern American essay writing.” —Financial Times
“My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts,” writes Eula Biss, “the period before I owned a washing machine and the period after.” Having purchased her first house, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system to which she has adhered. Through a series of engaging exchanges – in libraries and laundromats, around bar stools and garden fences – she examines our assumptions about class and property and how we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by the New York Times as a writer who "advances in all directions, like a chess player," Biss offers an unusually immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of labor and luxury, accumulation and consumption, the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon, Biss asks herself and her class, “What have we invested in?”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eula Biss is the author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller On Immunity: An Inoculation, which was named one of the 10 best books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review, and Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The Believer, and elsewhere, and has been supported by an NEA Literature Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
Buy on Google Play Books https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEBsURcRaM
French language
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio
Published on: September 1, 2020
ISBN: 9780593288535
Duration: 7h15
Genres: Political science / Political ideologies / Capitalism, social sciences / Essays, social sciences / Social classes and economic disparities
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