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'A major achievement.' CLAUDIA RANKINE'Endlessly absorbing.' SIN�AD GLEESON'A probing tour of capitalism and class.' MAGGIE NELSON'Exhilarating.' JENNY OFFILLA personal reckoning with the intricacies of money, class and capitalism from the N ew York Times bestselling author.Having just purchased her first home, Eula Biss embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The result is Having and Being a radical interrogation of work, leisure and capitalism. Playfully ranging from IKEA to Beyonc� to Pok�mon, across bars and laundromats and universities, she asks, of both herself and her class, 'In what have we invested?'As a writer Eula Biss has two great gifts. The first is her ability to reveal to the reader what has, all along, been hidden in plain sight . . . Her other talent is for laying bare our submerged fears . . . In Having and Being Had , both gifts are on display . . . if you are not deeply discomfited by the time you finish reading On Having and Being Had , you have no conscience.'AMINATTA FORNA, GUARDIAN'Calls on the controlled rush of poetry and turns experience into art.'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Nuanced . . . Biss' sentences have retained a poet's precision.'IRISH TIMES'Eula Biss's prescient new book gave me new language for things I didn't know I felt . . . A brilliant, lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why, and who in turn might own us.'ALEXANDER CHEE'No contemporary writer I know explores and confronts her own societal responsibilities better than Eula Biss.'ALEKSANDER HEMON'A meditation on race, consumerism and the American caste system. And a wry, vivd assessment of our spiritual moment. It is no accident that Having and Being Had reads like the poems money would write if money wrote poems.'JEET THAYIL
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Publisher: Faber Faber
Publication Date: 2023-03-30
ISBN: 9780571346431
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