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Loading... Poor People (2007)by William T. Vollmann
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   betty_s | Oct 7, 2023 |  chrisvia | Apr 29, 2021 |  ) sonyahuber | Dec 3, 2019 | This is not an academic treatise. It does not have a thesis, and does not arrive at any easy answers. It is, however, an engrossing read. More than 100 photographs of the people he interviewed, as well as other scenes of poverty, are included in the book, which makes these people all the more real. As Vollmann notes, too often we prefer to make our poor invisible. (  ) arubabookwoman | Apr 25, 2017 | ) beckydj | Apr 3, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
"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. No library descriptions found. |
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