Payback debt and the shadow side of wealth

Atwood, Margaret 1939- (Author). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (Added Author).

Summary: In Payback, Margaret Atwood launches an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion and literature, and a major force in the structure of human societies. Through the stories we tell each other, in concepts such as balance, revenge and sin, and in the way we form our social relationships, Atwood shows how the idea of what we owe one another is built into the human imagination.

Record details

ISBN: 0660198304
ISBN: 9780660198309
Physical Description: sound recording
sound disc
5 sound discs (ca. 5 hr.) : digital.
Publisher: [Toronto?] : CBC Audio, p2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally broadcast on the CBC Radio program: Ideas.
Formatted Contents Note:	Ancient balances (St. John's) -- Debt and sin (Vancouver) -- Debt as plot (Winnipeg) -- The shadow side (Montreal) -- Payback (Toronto).
Participant or Performer Note:	Lectures by Margaret Atwood.
System Details Note:	Compact discs.