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010    2006048547 
020    0060878827 
020    9780060878825 
035    (OCoLC)70668876 
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050 00 HV4028|b.V65 2007 
100 1  Vollmann, William T. 
245 10 Poor people /|cWilliam T. Vollmann. 
264  1 New York :|bEcco,|c[2007] 
264  4 |c©2007 
300    xx, 314 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0  Self-definitions: I think I am rich -- I think they are 
       poor -- Natalia's children -- Everything you should do by 
       yourself -- The two mountains -- Phenomena: Invisibility -
       - Deformity -- Unwantedness -- Dependence -- Accident-
       prone-ness -- Paint -- Numbness -- Estrangement -- Choices
       : Amortization -- Crime without criminals -- Snakehead 
       fear -- Hopes: "More aid, better directed" -- The rider --
       Under the road -- Dirty toilets -- Placeholders: I know I 
       am rich -- I think you are rich -- Money just goes to 
       where it goes. 
520    "Because I was bad in my last life." "Because Allah has 
       willed it." "Because the rich do nothing for the poor." 
       "Because the poor do nothing for themselves." "Because it 
       is my destiny." These are just some of the answers to the 
       simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann 
       asks in cities and villages around the globe: "Why are you
       poor?" In the tradition of James Agee's Let Us Now Praise 
       Famous Men, writer Vollmann struggles to confront poverty 
       in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and 
       abject fear, its fierce misery and its quiet resignation. 
       He allows the poor to speak for themselves, explaining the
       causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their 
       own cultural, social, and religious terms. The result of 
       Vollmann's fearless journey is a look at poverty unlike 
       any other.--From publisher description. 
650  0 Poor. 
650  0 Poverty. 
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