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  Poor People (Paperback) By (author) William T. Vollmann

  

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  Short Description for Poor PeopleA National Book Award-winning author travels the globe and meets with impoverished individuals where they live to document firsthand the causes and effects of poverty. Two 16-page photo inserts.
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  • Publisher: HARPER PERENNIAL
  • Published: 01 February 2008
  • Format: Paperback 464 pages
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  • Categories: Poverty & Unemployment
  • ISBN 13: 9780060878849 ISBN 10: 0060878843
  • Sales rank: 351,268

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Full description for Poor People

• That was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann's fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously offered. "Poor People" struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and quiet resignation, allowing the poor to explain the causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their own cultural, social, and religious terms. With intense compassion and a scrupulously unpatronizing eye, Vollmann invites his readers to recognize in our fellow human beings their full dignity, fallibility, pride, and pain, and the power of their hard-fought resilience.