{"product_id":"having-and-being-had-1","title":"Having and Being Had","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A major achievement.' \u003cb\u003eCLAUDIA RANKINE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Endlessly absorbing.' \u003cb\u003eSINÉAD GLEESON  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A probing tour of capitalism and class.' \u003cb\u003eMAGGIE NELSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Exhilarating.' \u003cb\u003eJENNY OFFILL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA personal reckoning with the intricacies of money, class and capitalism from the \u003ci\u003eN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author.\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving just purchased her first home, Eula Biss embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The result is Having and Being Had: a radical interrogation of work, leisure and capitalism. Playfully ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokémon, across bars and laundromats and universities, she asks, of both herself and her class, 'In what have we invested?  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'As a writer Eula Biss has two great gifts. The first is her ability to reveal to the reader what has, all along, been hidden in plain sight . . . Her other talent is for laying bare our submerged fears . . . In \u003ci\u003eHaving and Being Had\u003c\/i\u003e, both gifts are on display . . . if you are not deeply discomfited by the time you finish reading\u003ci\u003e On Having and Being Had\u003c\/i\u003e, you have no conscience.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAMINATTA FORNA, \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Calls on the controlled rush of poetry and turns experience into art.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Nuanced . . . Biss' sentences have retained a poet's precision.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Eula Biss's prescient new book gave me new language for things I didn't know I felt . . . A brilliant, lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why, and who in turn might own us.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eALEXANDER CHEE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'No contemporary writer I know explores and confronts her own societal responsibilities better than Eula Biss.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eALEKSANDER HEMON\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A meditation on race, consumerism and the American caste system. And a wry, vivd assessment of our spiritual moment. It is no accident that \u003ci\u003eHaving and Being Had\u003c\/i\u003e reads like the poems money would write if money wrote poems.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJEET THAYIL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54217969467736,"sku":"9780571346431","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571346431.jpg?v=1778899515","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/having-and-being-had-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}