Poor People
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781615571284 (1615571280)
Publish date: February 27th 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
History,
Literature,
American,
Economics,
Politics,
Sociology,
Social Issues,
Class,
Poverty
IntroductionIncome TableDictionary--Poor PeopleSourcesAcknowledgmentsPhotographs
*warning: ebook edition does not contain photographs*William T. Vollmann has been in the back of my subconscious for some five years now; he gets constantly name-dropped in New Yorker articles and other intellectual pieces, being as he is part of the intellectual establishment--a graduate of the fam...
Is this a book? It reads like the strange ruminations of a poet more than a book about the world’s poor. Vollmann spends pages and pages trying to define what it is when he talks about poverty, arguing with himself back and forth, repeating phrases over and over, speculating. I suppose I just was...
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