{"product_id":"bread-and-circus","title":"Bread and Circus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormally ambidextrous, teethed with wit and uncompromising dignity.\" – Ocean Vuong\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBread and Circus\u003c\/i\u003e is a hybrid and palimpsestic memoir-in-verse: it combines poetry, photography and spectral imaging to explore the realities of economic necessity and marginal poverty through a personal lens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining the experience of the US urban Black community from a variety of perspectives, it draws heavily on Airea D. Matthews's archival research on Adam Smith, the eighteenth-century Scottish economist, as well as his magnum opus, \u003ci\u003eThe Wealth of Nations\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the perspective shifts from watchful child, to teacher, mother, writer and citizen, \u003ci\u003eBread and Circus\u003c\/i\u003e asks what it is to have survived, indeed to have flourished, and at what cost.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46784194478424,"sku":"9781035000821","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781035000821.jpg?v=1768539622","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bread-and-circus","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}