Bibliograph

Having and being had, Eula Biss

Type

Label

Having and being had, Eula Biss

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-322)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Having and being had

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1139375221

Responsibility statement

Eula Biss

Summary

"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, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges--in libraries and laundromats, over barstools and backyard fences--she examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by the New York Times as a writer who "advances from all sides, like a chess player," Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury, of accumulation and consumption, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon, Biss asks, of both herself and her class, "In what have we invested?"

Table Of Contents

Consumption -- Work -- Investment -- Acounting

Creator