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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City: Pulitzer 2017

Autor Matthew Desmond
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mar 2017
'Essential. A compelling and damning exploration of the abuse of one of our basic human rights: shelter.' Owen Jones

Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her kids in Milwaukee's coldest winter for years. Doreen's home is so filthy her family call it 'the rat hole'. Lamar, a wheelchair-bound ex-soldier, tries to work his way out of debt for his boys. Scott, a nurse turned addict, lives in a gutted-out trailer. This is their world. And this is the twenty-first century: where fewer and fewer people can afford a simple roof over their head.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141983318
ISBN-10: 0141983310
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seriile Pulitzer 2017, Gates Notes - Cărți recomandate de Bill Gates

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

An extraordinary ethnographic study... Desmond takes people who are usually seen as worthless, and shows us their full humanity ... By examining one city through the microscopic lens of housing, he shows us how the system that produces that pain and poverty was created and is maintained
For the two or three weeks I was reading the book, it formed my topic of conversation with friends, and at night, when I went to sleep, it filled my thoughts ... It makes you aware of how complicated the webs holding you up are.
A monumental and vivid study of urban poverty ...Evicteddemands attention. It shines a klieg light on a dark corner of the American experience
Heartbreaking... Desmond's acute observational skills, his facility with reported dialogue and his ability to wrench chaotic stories into clear prose makeEvicteda vivid, if sometimes gruelling, read... with UK house prices unaffordable, a dearth of council housing and a Government committed to austerity,Evictedserves as a warning as to what happens when a society refuses to recognise the fundamental human right to shelter
A remarkable ethnography ... [Desmond] has a novelist's eye for the telling detail and a keen ear for dialogue ... This is a significant literary achievement, as well as a feat of reporting underpinned by statistical labour
Astonishing ... Desmond has set a new standard for reporting on poverty

Notă biografică

2015 MacArthur 'Genius' award winner Matthew Desmond is an associate professor of sociology and social science at Harvard University and co-director of the Justice and Poverty Project. He is the author of the award-winning book On The Fireline and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and Chicago Tribune.


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'Essential. A compelling and damning exploration of the abuse of one of our basic human rights: shelter.' Owen Jones

Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her kids in Milwaukee's coldest winter for years. Doreen's home is so filthy her family call it 'the rat hole'. Lamar, a wheelchair-bound ex-soldier, tries to work his way out of debt for his boys. Scott, a nurse turned addict, lives in a gutted-out trailer. This is their world. And this is the twenty-first century: where fewer and fewer people can afford a simple roof over their head.