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Having and Being Had

3.8/5 ( ratings)

"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after." Having just purchased her first home, she now embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The result is a radical interrogation of work, leisure, and capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who "advances from all sides, like a chess player," Biss brings her approach to the lived experience of capitalism. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon, across bars and laundromats and universities, she asks, of both herself and her class, "In what have we invested?"

Language: English

Pages: 277

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Release: September 01, 2020

ISBN: 0525537457

ISBN 13: 9780525537458

Having and Being Had

3.8/5 ( ratings)

"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after." Having just purchased her first home, she now embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The result is a radical interrogation of work, leisure, and capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who "advances from all sides, like a chess player," Biss brings her approach to the lived experience of capitalism. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon, across bars and laundromats and universities, she asks, of both herself and her class, "In what have we invested?"

Language: English

Pages: 277

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Release: September 01, 2020

ISBN: 0525537457

ISBN 13: 9780525537458

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