{"product_id":"poor-people-9780060878849","title":"Poor People","description":"\u003cp\u003eThat 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoor People\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVollmann, William T.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eWilliam T. Vollmann is the author of seven novels, three collections of stories, and a seven-volume critique of violence, \u003cem\u003eRising Up and Rising Down\u003c\/em\u003e. He is also the author of \u003cem\u003ePoor People\u003c\/em\u003e, a worldwide examination of poverty through the eyes of the impoverished themselves; \u003cem\u003eRiding Toward Everywhere\u003c\/em\u003e, an examination of the train-hopping hobo lifestyle; and Imperial, a panoramic look at one of the poorest areas in America. He has won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and a Whiting Writers' Award. His journalism and fiction have been published in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSpin\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e. Vollmann lives in Sacramento, California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725255872786,"sku":"9780060878849","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_514a2801-d1c7-4c28-a52a-bed406146941.jpg?v=1734822423","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/poor-people-9780060878849","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}