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Poor People

By Vollmann , William T

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Year
2014
ISBN
9780062043795, 9780060878825, 0060878827, 9780060878849, 006204379X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
704 kB (720549 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Social Science;SOCIAL SCIENCE--Poverty & Homelessn

Description

That was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann's fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously offered. Poor People struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and quiet resignation, allowing the poor to explain the causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their own cultural, social, and religious terms. With intense compassion and a scrupulously unpatronizing eye, Vollmann invites his readers to recognize in our fellow human beings their full dignity, fallibility, pride, and pain, and the power of their hard-fought resilience. Some images that appeared in the print edition of this book are unavailable in the electronic edition due to rights reasons.

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