Margaret Atwood Author of Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Margaret Atwood offers us an unexpected look at the topic of debt, an appropriate topic given the current state of our economy. Atwood provides us with a highly entertaining and creative approach to a timely subject. She approaches the subject with intense curiosity and her sense of humour keeps you reading. About the Author Margaret Atwood is one of the world's finest writers -- winner of the Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Governor General's Literary Award, among many other honours. She is the bestselling author of more than thirty-five books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake. She is an International Vice President of PEN. Reviews: "Atwood's book is a weird but wonderful mélange of personal reminiscences, literary walkabout, moral preachment, timely political argument, economic history and theological query, all bound together with wry wit and careful though casual-seeming research. . . . [A] consistently captivating storyteller." - Publishers Weekly " . . . an extraordinarily vibrant Massey Lecture on debt, how it plays a motor force in much literature, in our own lives and in the machinations of the crowd we elect to govern us." - Maclean's "In Payback, Atwood freely mixes autobiography, literary criticism and anthropology in an examination of debt as a concept deeply rooted in human - and even, in some cases, animal - behaviour. . . . Building an argument that abounds with literary examples . . . Atwood entertainingly and often wryly advances the familiar thesis that what goes around comes around." - Toronto Star " . . .witty, acutely argued and almost freakishly prescient. . . . as amusing as it is unsettling." - Chicago Tribune "Replete with anecdotes and opinions, witticisms and barbs. . . . Payback is more about economic principles, and even the market crisis, than it appears at first glance. As impressive as Atwood's intuitions, or her intellect, or even her humour, is her insistence on tracing responsibilities, and possibilities, back to those human, and thus imaginative, constructions." - Globe and Mail Awards: Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year Selected (2008) Axiom Business Book Awards - Business Ethics Silver (2008)