{"product_id":"no-fixed-abode-ethnofiction","title":"No Fixed Abode","description":"In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the  appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed,  there are people so overburdened by the cost of living and so under  compensated that they cannot afford a place to sleep. Contrary to  popular opinion, according to the website for the Coalition for the  Homeless, forty-four percent of the homeless in first world countries  actually have jobs.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNo Fixed Abode\u003c\/i\u003e, Marc Augé’s  pathbreaking ethnofiction—a fictional ethnography—a man named Henri  narrates his strange existence in the margins of Paris. By day he walks  the streets, lingers in conversation with the local shopkeepers, and  sits writing in cafés, but at night he takes shelter in an abandoned  house. From here, we see a progressive erosion of Henri’s identity, a  loss of bearings, and a slow degeneration of his ability to relate to  others. But then he meets the artist Dominique, whose willingness to  share her life with him raises questions about who he has become and  about what a person needs in order to be a part of society.\u003cbr\u003eThis  is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and  patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being. Despite the  apparent simplicity of the fictional premise, Augé’s book asks serious  questions about the nature of our culture.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books London Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49607272333656,"sku":"9780857426345","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/no-fixed-abode-ethnofiction","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}